Quotes about dog
dog sleep jewels
I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe. Anne Sexton
dog
God, why didn't you make us all dogs? Anne Rice
dog people littles
My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not. Anna Held
dog doors my-family
As soon as I walk through the door and see my family and the dogs, I feel relaxed. Andy Murray
dog sweet brother
I guess the closest I came was doing chores around the house to earn pocket money. My brother and I would have to do the washing up, cleaning around the house, walking my grandparents' dog, lots of things. We didn't get a huge amount but it was always enough to be able to walk down to the local shops and get some sweets. Andy Murray
dog medicine stones
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway. Ambrose Bierce
dog doe watches
CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. Ambrose Bierce
dog latin verbs
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. Ambrose Bierce
dog order two
EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog. Ambrose Bierce
dog gold jupiter
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Ambrose Bierce
dog mean tails
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition. Ambrose Bierce
dog literature world
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. Ambrose Bierce
dog eye fence-post
It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost. Anthony Kiedis
dog opportunity stealing
There's a lot of opportunities for scene-stealing if you're a dog. Alison Brie
dog cat animal
Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies. Alicia Silverstone
dog crazy home
We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture. Alicia Silverstone
dog play biggie
I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog. Alicia Keys
dog writing sleep
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to. Alice Weaver Flaherty
dog needs body
You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need. Alice Walker
dog guessing language
You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood. Alice Hoffman
dog fighting winning
In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
dog years ideas
Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing. Anne Heche
dog horse writing
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food. Anne McCaffrey
dog feelings contentment
My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested. Anne Lamott
dog horse children
Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you? Alyssa Milano
dog horse elephants
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns. Alphonse de Lamartine
dog laughing reason
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh. Alphonse de Lamartine
dog differences thee
My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator. Alphonse de Lamartine
dog boko-haram scandal
Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. Consider all the scandals facing the Obama administration, especially Benghazi and the Select Committee. Allen West
dog lions silliness
Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not. Alexander McCall Smith
dog angel thinking
To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence. Alexander Pope
dog time calendars
Dogs, ye have had your day! Alexander Pope
dog curiosity littles
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us? Alexander Pope