
“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!”
Source: Twelve Years a Slave
Source: Steelheart
“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!”
Source: Twelve Years a Slave
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.”
Source: Living Dead in Dallas
“I should be able to get the alligators to dance to the tune of the pan pipe.”
March 30, 1947
Source: Letters to Milton Hindus (1947-1949), Les Cahiers de la NRF, Gallimard ISBN 2070134296
“He wouldn’t drain the swamp, but merely feed different alligators.”
No, the Swamp Won't Be Drained (December 01, 2016)
“[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!”
The Alligator
How to Become Extinct (1941)
[Stephen Rodrick, New York, http://nymag.com/news/features/34992/, The Actor, 2007, 2007-09-22]
"The Battle of New Orleans" (1936)
Context: We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down,
So we grabbed an alligator an' we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls an' powdered his behind,
An' when they touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind.
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood