Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Miller

I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

Dalai Lama

Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

Billy Idol

(I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me.

Chris Evans

I really love the sound of my dog snoring.

Takeo Spikes

I promise you, ... When I come back, I'm going to be like a mad dog in a meat house.

Stephen Kinzer

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.

If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end

Harry S Truman

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog

If you will, we won the dog race.

Jennifer Morgan

If people forget their lunch there is going to be a hot dog vendor. It's going to be so much fun.

If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.

If you don't have that dog to run with you at the event, stop by and we'll have about 40 or 50 dogs and cats.

If you don't have a lot of time to prepare, it can really be a problem with all their dogs and blitzes. They give you a lot of looks; it all can be very disruptive. It forces you to be very solid in your protections.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around

If you put a dog on a chain, it's going to get aggressive.

Don King

If you are with Don King and you're in his dog house, you don't get to fight. I need to be active. I'm off 11 months, that's what you get.

If you just take them to a dog park they could be exposed to tons of things, ... The dogs could have all kinds of parasites. They could've never had a shot in their lives.

If you come on a Sunday, be sure to stay until the end. We have one big blowout. Everyone gets on stage and they don't leave until the last dog is dead.

Ingmar Bergman

I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.

Jack LaLanne

People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

Jack LaLanne

There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.

J. G. Ballard

Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

Isobelle Carmody

The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.

Israel Zangwill

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Italo Calvino

I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.

Irving Paul Lazar

Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog.

Ingrid Newkirk

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

Ingrid Newkirk

By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

Ingrid Newkirk

The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind,

Ingrid Newkirk

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

Ingrid Newkirk

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.