Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augusten Burroughs

Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows sleep or pee or roll around on top of other dogs. This one ignored us its window-mates and was instead sitting with its nose pressed against the glass, looking at us with an extremely serious little expression on its face. An expression that seemed to me to be saying, "I am a sacred cow. Get out your wallet.

Arthur Miller

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

Brent Sutter

We really have to have a junkyard dog mentality and that's the way we have to play. I want us to be a very disciplined, committed, hard-working team and in your face.

We're 0-3 in region, we've got to turn it around at some point. Morgan was motivating, but they realized they are in a dog fight now. We've got to step it up to make it to State.

We're a no-kill shelter. If these dogs would have stayed at the Humane Society, they all would have gone under the needle, even though they really try not to do that.

Charles Bukowski

The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment.

Charles Bukowski

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

Charles Bukowski

Love is a Dog from Hell.

Charles Bukowski

I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

Charles Bukowski

dogs and angels are not very far apart

Charles Bukowski

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

Charles Bukowski

Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

Christopher Stone

We usually have about 50-60 dogs in the day. We go up as high as 25 dogs for the overnight.

Edward Abbey

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

Edward Abbey

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

Edward Abbey

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Edward Abbey

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

Edward Abbey

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Edward Abbey

May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

Auberon Waugh

I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

Aristotle

There is honor in being a dog.

Aristotle

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Ben Jonson

A good dog deserves a good bone.

Ben Jonson

I do honor the very flea of his dog.

Ed O'Neill

When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?

Elizabeth Bowen

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

Dominic Monaghan

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Dirk Benedict

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

David Jason

I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

Aaron Eckhart

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

Camille Paglia

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist

Many of these dogs are sweet and energetic but just need the right care. But many people just come in and don't take the time to get to know the animals.

Many people don't realize how far they're going and how much a dog can take.