Quotes about cat
cat judging language
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology. Steven Pinker
cat ideas awards
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.
cat sentimental
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it Susan Howatch
cat bmw people
You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it. Richard Hammond
cat giving soul
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul. Richard Aldington
cat mean thinking
I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it. Sammy Hagar
cat names profound
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name. T. S. Eliot
cat
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.
catholic literature classicists
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
cat thinking names
Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.
cat names mind
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.
cat thinking doors
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.
cat house want
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
cat matter difficult
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
cat names pie
Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.
cat speak
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
cat like-you enough
You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.
cat wind done
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
cat voice wow
Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess Scott Westerfeld
cat pet pay
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. Scott Adams
cat kitten turns
Time is what turns kittens into cats. Joss Whedon
cat home animal
The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans. Konrad Lorenz
cat animal expression
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
catholic joints world
I was brought up Catholic. Then I had a joint and looked at the world differently. Liam Gallagher
catholic proud protestants
Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends. Liam Neeson
cat biblical boss
I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever. Lenny Bruce
catholic scripture add
It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense. Thomas Aquinas
catholic danger paved-roads
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
catholic matter dogma
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
catholic saint doe
What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
cat rights pet
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. Theresa May
catholic half saint
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all. Therese of Lisieux
catholic deeds saint
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.