Cat famous quotes

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
-- A. S. J. Tessimond

#Cat #Wind #Shadow

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
-- Aaron Allston

#Lying #Cat #Differences

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Cat #Understanding

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Anniversary #Cat #Humor

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspiring #Dog #Cat

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Believe #Cat #Missing

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.
-- Adam Johnson

#Character #Cat #Hard Work

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
-- Adam Rex

#Cat #Want #Way

As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.
-- Adam Rex

#Nice #Cat #Pet

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Cat #Rushing #Mad

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Cat #Giving #Pet

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Cat #Tea #Sound

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
-- Agnes Varda

#Cat #Cameras #Needs

You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Hurt #Cat #Pride

Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Hurt #Heart #Cat

Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her.... -Nana Komatsu
-- Ai Yazawa

#Pain #Heart #Cat

To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
-- Aileen Fisher

#Mistake #Cat #Eye

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.
-- Aino Kallas

#Fashion #Cat #Devil

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
-- Akif Pirincci

#Cat #Thinking #Sound

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
-- Al Capone

#Fall #Cat #Marine

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.
-- Al Leiter

#Cat #Guy #Watches

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
-- Alan Ayckbourn

#Cat #Animal #Names

Every ship should have a cat.
-- Alan Villiers

#Cat #Ships #Should

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
-- Alastair Campbell

#Dog #Dad #Cat

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
-- Albert Einstein

#New York #Cat #Long

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
-- Albert Einstein

#Cat #Animal #Men

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Cat #Ideas #Arriving

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Cat #Burning #Vegetarian

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Writing #Cat #Novelists

If you want to write, keep cats.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Writing #Cat #Want

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
-- Aldous Huxley

#Sex #Sleep #Cat

Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Cat #Thinking #Symphony

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Cat #Needs

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #Home #Cat

Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.
-- Alex Shakar

#Dog #Children #Cat

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
-- Alexander Pope

#Cat #College

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
-- Alexis Ohanian

#Mean #Cat #Media

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Dog #Cat #Animal

Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.
-- Alicia Silverstone

#Dog #Cat #Animal

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.
-- Allen Lacy

#Fun #Cat #Two

'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?
-- Ally Carter

#Cat #Lucky #Gallagher

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.
-- Alvah Bessie

#Cat #Canaries #Said

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
-- Alvin Martin

#Football #Cat #Hot

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
-- Alwin Nikolais

#Dance #Cat #Innocent

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
-- Alwin Nikolais

#Cat #Innocent #Should

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.
-- Amanda Holden

#Home #Cat #Years

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Nature #Cat #Circles

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
-- Amy Lee

#Cat #People #Healthy

A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume...
-- Amy Lowell

#Sweet #Cat #Night

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.
-- Amy Sedaris

#Party #Drinking #Cat

In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).
-- Ana Castillo

#Cat #Ideas #Self

I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.
-- Ana Ortiz

#Dog #Mean #Cat

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
-- Andre Norton

#Cat #Trying #Littles

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
-- Andre Norton

#Cat #People #Creative

Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.
-- Andrea Camilleri

#Stars #Cat #Eye

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
-- Andrew Bogut

#Cat #Two #Black

We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.
-- Andrew Harvey

#Children #Cat #Reality

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?
-- Andrew Vachss

#Moving #Cat #Eye

Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.
-- Andy Borowitz

#Funny #Cat #Technology

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.
-- Angela Kinsey

#Dog #Cat #Interesting

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.
-- Anita Baker

#Crazy #Cat #Wish

If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed.
-- Ann Coulter

#Cat #Tire #Ends

Cats definitely have their own opinions.
-- Ann M. Martin

#Cat #Opinion

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Cat #Responsibility #Pet

All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.
-- AnnaLynne McCord

#Country #Cat #Animal

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
-- Anne Enright

#Cat #Thinking #Lap

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos...
-- Anne Fadiman

#Sleep #Cat #Demand

I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
-- Anne Lamott

#Jesus #Cat #Alcohol

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
-- Anne Lamott

#Dog #Cat #Rainy Day

I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat.
-- Anne Lamott

#Baby #Cat #Ideas

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Wall #Cat #Garden

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.
-- Anne Roiphe

#Running #Cat #Divorce

I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Running #Mean #Cat

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Running #Mean #Cat

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Cat #Caress

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Sexy #Dog #Cat

If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.
-- Aristophanes

#Cat #Men #Care

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.
-- Arnold Arre

#Kids #Cat #Black And White

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Cat #Thinking #Fire

What is easily the most dangerous spot cats choose for sleeping? Beneath our feet-sprawled out in hallways or in doorways, tails predictably extended just to be stepped on.
-- Arnold Hano

#Sleep #Cat #Feet

Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.
-- Arnold Hano

#Hero #Cat #Accomplishment

You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.
-- Arnold Hano

#Wall #Crazy #Cat

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
-- Art Blakey

#Cat #Names #Jazz

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Cat #Animal #Three

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Cat #Would Be #Physics

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
-- Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall

#Cat #Firsts #Moments

The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Rain #Cat #Sneezing

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#Cat #Jumping #Care

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Cat #Pet #Helpful

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.
-- Arthur Symons

#Cat #Eye #Magic

The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat.
-- Arturo Rosenblueth

#Cat #Models

In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.
-- Asa Hutchinson

#Cat #Important #Watches

My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Cat #Oscars #Ginger

It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in physics that would eventually produce the CAT scan. The calculations of today's GPS satellites are based on the equations that Einstein put to paper more than a century ago.
-- Barack Obama

#Cat #Gps #One Day

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
-- Barbara Holland

#Dog #Teaching #Cat

It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.
-- Barbara Holland

#Home #Heart #Cat

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.
-- Barbara Holland

#Cat #Data #Trying

Very few people have no opinions about cats.
-- Barbara Holland

#Cat #People #Opinion

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.
-- Barbara Holland

#Cat #Names #Long

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
-- Barbara Holland

#Writing #Cat #Typewriters