Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Van Vechten

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

Carl Van Vechten

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Carl Van Vechten

Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

Carl Van Vechten

...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Carl Van Vechten

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

Carl Van Vechten

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

Carl Van Vechten

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Mom, can we go Catholic so we can get communion wafers and booze?

Much of (Target and Wal-Mart's) revenue growth depends on the economy and other factors, just like for Amazon. At what point should it be closer to a retail stock than an Internet stock, and I'd say right now. The catalyst to get it there will be if the revenue continues to decelerate.

Mountain Creek is eager to catch the perpetrators and has proactively put security measures in place, including working directly with residents to catch those responsible.

Motorola is going to have to screw up for Nokia to catch them in the U.S..

Mentally and physically, Joliet Catholic just wears you down,

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Catherine II of Russia

Darrell Jackson

My job is still the same, just to catch passes and make things happen.

Nat Friedman

One of the things that people like about apt-get is having an easy-to-use software catalog at their fingertips, so if you want to install some missing software on your machine, you can do it with a quick command.

One morning, I woke my wife up at 3 a.m. to witness what I saw. They were coming down the road and one of them had one of the neighborhood cats in its mouth. It's like a pack of wild dogs. They're vicious. I've seen them eye-to-eye and it's scary.

Spike Lee

One more, we catch De Niro and Scorsese. I hope we catch them, and I hope we pass them.

One female dog and her offspring, in 6 years, will produce 67,000 dogs. One female cat and her offspring, in 7 years, will produce 420,000 cats.

Kevin Stallings

Obviously we've got yet another game where we're catching a team at a tough time coming off a tough loss and it seems like we've made a habit of that so far in the league season. Florida is always one of the most difficult places to play in the league. ... It will be a difficult task.

Obviously, with Hicks you got a big-play receiver that can go vertical and catch the deep ball.

Hines Ward

Of course, all wide receivers want to catch all the balls, ... But the game plan that day was for us to go out and run the ball. I only had two attempts, so I made the most of it.

No one in the world I thought would catch that ball.

No one guy has caught a ton of passes for us. We've had eight or nine guys catch passes the past few games.

Serena Williams

No one gets me more motivated than Venus because I don't want her to catch up with me yet. She's at five (Grand Slam tournament titles) now. I still have seven. So I got to keep ahead.

Eddie Martinez

One way or another, we're going to catch him. We're going to get him, whether here or in Mexico.

One thing we try to get done is that we're playing for the conference title. I think we're going to be solid enough. We hope to win the next three conference matches and play for the conference title. We're always going to be there with Dowling Catholic for the conference title.

Charles Tillman

On Johnson's touchdown, it was a good catch on his part and a perfect throw.

Kim Jones

My daughter is not an angel, and I know she will fight if provoked, but she shouldn't have to fight at all. Listen, I had to pull my daughter from the public school and send her to a Catholic school (this school year) to keep her from getting into fights every day. Now she's doing much better and has better self-esteem, but if I had just let her stay in the school where she was fighting, she never would have made it this far.

John Moyer

My dad used to take me when I was little. I always try to catch the show now, because it doesn't cost too much more than a movie ticket, and live events are always more attention-grabbing.

Dave Brubeck

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Danny Meyer

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

David Barnes

More importantly, the removal of regulatory uncertainty provides the much-needed catalyst to close the deep discount to fair values in the sector.

Clint Hurdle

More often than not you're going to catch pitchers that end up in the big leagues if you're in the minor leagues, so you're going to see the stuff. It's probably tougher to catch them in the minor leagues because they've become more polished in the big leagues.