Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milan Kundera

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.

Milan Kundera

The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.

Milan Kundera

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.

Mara Wilson

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

Laurie R. King

The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

Johnny Depp

If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.

John Turturro

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show

John Sharp Williams

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

John Selden

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

James Jones

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

James Iha

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

James Joyce

I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

James Ransone

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

Laura Dern

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

Libba Bray

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

Libba Bray

You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.

Louise Erdrich

Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.

The handlers are the ones that screw up, ... You've got to keep that target out in front and it's hard to do. That dog is 40 feet away and going Mach 12 right at you and you've got to time it.

The hardest thing was leaving our two dogs.

The dog would not leave the side of the vehicle.

The dog was emaciated and had some bruising, but was able to walk around,

Barbara Rush

The dog wanted us out of the house.

The dog thing seemed to be the most fun and have the most potential, ... The market seemed to be really fairly large and growing, with lots of voids.

Kathy Johnson

The dogs weren't actually too bad, they're well fed. We haven't found any major health problems so far.

The dog seemed very docile, just a really nice animal.

The dog can't talk, the dog can't provide a defense. My dog is paying the ultimate price.

A general rule of thumb is, ... you don't introduce dog legislation because it doesn't go anywhere.

Jacob Epstein

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Henry Adams

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

Helen Hayes

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him

Every dog is a lion at home.

Hedy Lamarr

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.