Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Caras

Being patted is what it is all about.

Roger Caras

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Sarah Kane

Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.

Sarah MacLean

What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

Sara Paretsky

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

Sara Gruen

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

Sara Gruen

I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.

Sanaa Lathan

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

Samuel Johnson

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

Will Steger

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Willa Cather

A burnt dog dreads the fire.

Will Smith

A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel.

Warren Ellis

Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.

Warren Ellis

So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?

Warren Beatty

I'm not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person."

Warren Buffett

Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Vincent Van Gogh

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

Virginia Woolf

women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

Virginia Woolf

We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.

William Blake

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

William Blake

A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

Wayne Pacelle

If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.

Walker Percy

The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

Walker Percy

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

Wallace Stegner

Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

This business is dog eat dog and nobody is gonna eat me.

Samuel Beckett

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Salma Hayek

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

Salma Hayek

Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

Ryan Tedder

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.