"I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London."

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Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

Jan Struther

#Cat Quotes #Kitchen Quotes #Black Quotes

“A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]”
“Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?" "I bet you'll tell me." " 'If you're reading this, you are one.' " You're a riot.”
“You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.”
“We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.”
“Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.”
“When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.”
“It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.”

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