Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wally Lamb

Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

Walt Disney

Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

Vinton Cerf

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

Vita Sackville-West

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

Walt Whitman

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

Saul Bellow

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

Sandra Bullock

Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

Rory Bremner

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

Roger Ebert

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

Roger Ebert

Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.

Roger Ebert

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.

Robin McKinley

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

Robert Plant

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

Roger Caras

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.

Roger Caras

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Roger Caras

Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!

Roger Caras

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

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.

William H. Macy

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

Walter Raleigh

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Waka Flocka Flame

I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.

W. Somerset Maugham

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

W. Somerset Maugham

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

Vladimir Nabokov

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

Vladimir Nabokov

Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?

Yoko Ono

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

Yann Martel

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!