Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

T. S. Eliot

The naming of cats is a difficult matter

T. S. Eliot

Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.

T. S. Eliot

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

T. S. Eliot

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

T. S. Eliot

When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.

Scott Westerfeld

Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

Scott Adams

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Ray Davies

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Debbi Fields

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Chuck Berry

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

Annette Funicello

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Danny Huston

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

David Foster Wallace

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

Confucius

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Alice Miller

Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.

Alice Hamilton

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.