"Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all."

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Source : Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

Barbara Holland

#Cat Quotes #Data Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”
“When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.”
“To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us...”
“Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.”
“One thing I knew about the novelistâ€™s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.”
“Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.”
“I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.”
“A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.”

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