Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cat Power

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

We don't have space for large animals like that.

We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help,

Henry Walter Bates

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

Imelda May

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

We do experiments with animals and we know there is a major problem, which is not solved, so one should not do this with humans because humans are not guinea pigs.

We want to know more about how animals communicate, and we know during these elaborate courtships, the male is basically saying, 'Mate with me.' But he also needs to know how to respond to the female, to interact with her.

Louis MacNeice

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

We operate in 23 states east of the Mississippi. We have issues like debris, or wild animals. But this is obviously different.

Tippi Hedren

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Brian Skerry

For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

Right now, animals are generally considered property. Animals do not have rights in the sense that humans have rights.

Wayne Pacelle

People were staying because they wouldn't leave their animals.

People won't think it will be enforced. It's already hard enough to enforce cruelty to animals.

Brigitte Bardot

My trust in you is broken and I am plunged into despair for the animals.

Nobody in these parts likes to see animals mistreated at all. It's not right. Anyone who would treat an animal like that would probably do the same to kids.

May I be dear to deities...people of equal capabilities and animals alike... and may I be blessed with a long life!

Martin Kennedy

One of the things we least understand is why animals evolved so late in Earth history. Why did animals wait until the 11th hour, whereas evidence for more primitive life dates back billions of years? One of the best bets to explain the difference is an increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere.

Of all the animals that people have been trying to clone, the dog is the only one that has proven really difficult.

Mark Twain

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

One volunteer said the animals are past being scared - they're blank,

Leslie Jamison

The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.

We are not bringing any animals in. We are just going in there and making sure they have food and water.

Jack Smith

We did get permits to take some of those animals out and retrain the rest of them.

Caroline Lucas

There is a reduction in the diversity of breeds in order to have the fastest growth, and animals are becoming more susceptible to diseases because of the way they are bred and kept. The search for profits leads to animals and then humans becoming more vulnerable. Our current policies are encouraging farming that overlooks basic husbandry.

The only way we could fund a program as big as this one is if we end up, at the end of the year, with that much money left over, which honestly, with all of the animals we have, we're never going to get there.

There are disadvantages if vaccination is not done in a controlled way. Animals that are inadequately vaccinated may contract the virus anyway and continue to spread it.

I bought the store because I wanted to be independent. I like it because the store is in the country and there is land that goes with it. I am able to keep my animals close by, including my horse. I didn't want to work for someone else. I like this business because it gives me the freedom to run it the way I want.

Certainly it could disturb the animals, but there's nothing illegal occurring.

Michael Showalter

Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Because of the fast and fierce spread of the virus in so many European countries, I wouldn't be surprised if other nations found cases in the next few days, or if more animals in other German areas become infected.

Jacques Rogge

China is so lucky to have so many beautiful animals to represent the Olympic spirit.