"Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously."

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Source : James Herriot (2012). “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

James Herriot

#Dog Quotes #Years Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“I'm a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.”

Source : Song: Drunk On You, Album: Tailgates & Tanlines, 2011
“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”
“I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.”
“Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.”
“Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.”
“We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.”

Source : "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
“The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.”
“Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.”

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