"At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea."

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Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat Who Had 14 Tales”, p.2, Penguin

Lilian Jackson Braun

#Cat Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“We are all experts in our own little niches.”
“I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.”

Source : "'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.
“Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.”
“I prefer people to disagree with me because I really don't think I'm smart enough to know what all the answers are and I think the back and forth ... we have a lot of it in our office, strong personalities, big intellects, good ideas - I think that back and forth has produced better strategies and tactics for us than if I sat in my office and decided we're doing those 10 things and that's the end of it.”
“The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?”
“It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.”
“I would have made a good pope.”
“Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.”

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