Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

Charles Baudelaire

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

Beverley Nichols

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

Beverley Nichols

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Bernie Mac

I've never been no superficial cat.

Edith Sitwell

My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

Eddie Izzard

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Eddie Izzard

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

Eartha Kitt

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

Beatrix Potter

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Arnold Bennett

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Lucy Lawless

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

We are proposing to strengthen the criminal law in respect of possession of a limited category of extreme material featuring adults. The intention is to reduce the demand for such material and to send a clear message that it has no place in our society.

We've actually tracked a percentage decline in that category going back to 1996,

Brian Schneider

We've actually talked about that a little bit. That's part of the reason I wanted to start catching him. Any time you catch somebody and you're more familiar with him, it helps, especially with as big as these games are going to be.

We usually have to catch someone in the act. But it's always a good idea to dispose of it properly, and depending on the rate of decay, our wildlife people may want to examine the remains.

There are some gradual signs that the worst is over for this particular downdraft, ... We're optimistic that we can get a little turnaround by the end of the week. But it's hard to point to any one real catalyst that can turn things around.

We're in a growth mode, and we're trying to catch up,

When you've got a day like today when the scoring is good, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind. It's not a good course to catch up on, because it's going to get harder and harder every day. It's nice to get off to a good start.

Nolan Sotillo

I watch a lot of Disney. I want to catch 'Hannah Montana Forever.'

Gretchen Rubin

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

Kurt Vonnegut

See the cat? See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

Madeleine Albright

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Jack Campbell

There is no one that can catch that ball. That was at least a double for sure.

There is no meat. The cattle have been killed. They're only eating corn.

Matt Smith

If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.

Meg Rosoff

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

Mariella Frostrup

For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.