Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carson McCullers

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

Carl Van Vechten

A cat is never vulgar.

Carl Van Vechten

Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

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.

Charles Kingsley

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

Charles Darwin

But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.

Charles Darwin

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

Bradley Cooper

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

Bonnie McKee

Obviously I love writing with Katy [Pery], I feel like we're the same person when we write together. Even though we fight a lot, we fight over every line and we pull each other's hair and we cat-fight all the time, it's always worth it in the end.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

Aristophanes

If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

Broderick Crawford

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Brittany Murphy

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

E. W. Howe

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

Joe Girardi

We're just being protective. He was OK to play today. But we're going to make sure that he is OK during the regular season. He will catch Saturday.

We understand the complexity of improving women's safety on campus. The CATS Path is not the only thing needed to improve women safety but it is a great start.

We should try to catch that one outside.

Jalal Talabani

We should respect the demands of the Sunnis because the constitution is not to serve only a certain category of people but for the whole of Iraq,

We should learn from him his inflexible spirit of always sticking to the path of catering to the taste and interests of the Chinese nation and the common people.

Steve Martin

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Brian Helgeland

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Gerry Adams

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

Gena Showalter

The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.

Ursula Burns

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

Oscar Hijuelos

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.