Quotes about dog
dog growing-up years
I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem. Eugene Mirman
dog men generosity
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God Francis Bacon
dog truth errors
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. Francis Bacon
dog eye old-friends
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. Francesca Lia Block
dog want impulse
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog. Fran Lebowitz
dog men thinking
A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer. Fran Lebowitz
dog animal pet
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Fran Lebowitz
dog silly animal
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail. Fran Lebowitz
dog kindness rainbow
Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING. George Saunders
dog book reading
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. George Orwell
dog knowing anxiety
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. George Orwell
dog circus cracks
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks the whip. But the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip- George Orwell
dog yankees texas
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman. George MacDonald Fraser
dog cat
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. George Mikes
dog cat animal
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. George Mikes
dog real teenager
One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues. G. Hannelius
dog dark deserve-more
You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. Christian Bale
dog book home
The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is. Chris Lynch
dog dirty thinking
I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good. Chris Kirkpatrick
dog years white
In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life. George Stephanopoulos
dog taken cat
Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. George Orwell
dog mind watches
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. George Orwell
dog freedom liberty
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. George Orwell
dog men hands
Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek. George R. R. Martin
dog stupid needs
If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya George R. R. Martin
dog growing-up cat
Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings. George R. R. Martin
dog love-you car
The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car. Jean Cocteau
dog home cat
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
dog truth pavlov
The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated. George Carlin
dog sleep cat
Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered. George Carlin
dog jobs lying
What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job! George Carlin
dog watches shame
A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch. George Carlin
dog life-is series
Life is a series of dogs. George Carlin