Quotes about cat
cat doubt comfort
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word. Rebecca West
cat men feelings
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.
cat giving tiffanys
But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky. Truman Capote
cat sleep sanctity
I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep. Rick Riordan
cat thinking center-of-the-universe
Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.
cat doe care
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. William S. Burroughs
cat pet individualism
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
cat ignorance saved
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
cat men relaxation
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women. William Lyon Phelps
cat years today
Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website. William J. Clinton
cat night psychics
However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born. William James
cat auditions records
When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to. Sarah Brightman
catholic saint saws
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. Robert Duvall
cat animal divine
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine. Robert Wilson Lynd
cat past talking
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, Robert Lowell
cat vision noses
Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand. Roger Caras
cat heart blood
We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.
cat loss egypt
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.
cat long episodes
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
cat underestimate humans
Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.
cat feel-good way
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.
cat littles different
In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different. Sarah Orne Jewett
cat long looks
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
cat mad pet
I've always been mad about cats. Vivien Leigh
cat sight mind
As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind. Walter de La Mare
cat doors long
All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
cat men surfing
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf
cat writing men
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot. Samuel Butler
catholic dogma existence
Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence. Salma Hayek
cat guy african-american
There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie. Wesley Snipes
cat white-man biscuits
You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.
cat found bronx
A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.
cat and-love shelter
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.