Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.

Camille Paglia

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

Camille Paglia

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

C. J. Cherryh

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

Bryan Davis

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

Beatrix Potter

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Arnold Bennett

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Chin-Ning Chu

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

Charles Baudelaire

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

Charles Baudelaire

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

Charles Horton Cooley

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

Billy Wilder

God save me from myself.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bill Maher

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Bernard of Clairvaux

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Action and contemplation are...

Bob Marley

When the cats away, the mice will play.

Cheech Marin

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

Beverley Nichols

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

Beverley Nichols

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Bernie Mac

I've never been no superficial cat.

Edith Sitwell

My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

Eddie Izzard

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Eddie Izzard

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

Eartha Kitt

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.