Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Aldous Huxley

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

Aldous Huxley

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Alexander McCall Smith

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

Alexander Pope

To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Alexander Pope

Dogs, ye have had your day!

Alexander Pope

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

Alexander Pope

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Alexander Pope

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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.

Swami Vivekananda

Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution.

Swami Vivekananda

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.

Simon Pegg

I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat.

Rick Riordan

So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new?

Rick Riordan

I caught Bast’s arm when she was a few steps from the bank. “Stay away from the water.” She frowned. “Carter, I’m a cat. I’m not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank.

Rick Riordan

I held out the painting of the cat and the snake. “It’s a cat and a snake,” Thoth said. Thank you, god of wisdom. You placed it for us to find, didn’t you? You’re trying to give us some sort of clue.” “Who, me?” Just kill him, Horus said. Shut up, I said. At least kill the guitar.

Rick Riordan

Never bet against a cat.

Rick Riordan

We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

Veronica Roth

I don't know if you know this," Tobias says, "but Edward is a little unstable." "I'm getting that," I say. "That Drew guy who helped Peter perform that butterknife maneuver," Tobias says. "Apparently when he got kicked out of Dauntless, he tried to join the same group of factionless Edward was a part of. Notice that you haven't seen Drew anywhere.

Vanessa Mae

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

Vanilla Ice

I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

Uta Hagen

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Usher

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

Usain Bolt

I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.

Taylor Swift

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Stephen King

Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond

Stedman Graham

I'm a lucky guy. No question.