Quotes about cat
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.
cat keys doors
On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door. W. S. Gilbert
cat way glad
Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you... W. H. Auden
cat skins kitten
I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin. William Cowper
cat would-be incredibles
[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
cat bears kitten
... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
cat delight suits
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
cat loss reflection
... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity.
cat jazz kind
Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz. Van Morrison
cat impress
I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.
cat comfort old-woman
There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. Ursula K. Le Guin
cat justice doe
The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do. Voltaire
cat kitten said
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. William Ralph Inge
cat want asks
Cats ask plainly for what they want. Walter Savage Landor
cat men flattery
Cats like men are flatterers.
cat mysterious kind
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. Walter Scott
cat want mail
I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat. Winnie Holzman
cat lines stories
Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat. William Safire
cat animal years
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not. William S. Burroughs
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.
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 pet doe
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
cat games play
A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game. William Lyon Phelps
cat water body
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.