Top Cat Quotes Collection - Page 16

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Image of Steven Pinker
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very fact that they have to be drilled shows that they are alien to the natural workings of the language system. One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.
- Steven Pinker
Collection: Cat
Image of Nas
All on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."
- Nas
Collection: Cat
Image of Karen Marie Moning
Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet
- Karen Marie Moning
Collection: Cat
Image of Haruki Murakami
Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.
- Haruki Murakami
Collection: Cat
Image of Orhan Pamuk
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
- Orhan Pamuk
Collection: Cat
Image of Terry Pratchett
Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Cat
Image of Louise Rennison
When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.
- Louise Rennison
Collection: Cat
Image of Darynda Jones
Then I asked her if she wanted to to the funeral, and my God, the look on her face. You'd think I'd asked her to drown the neighbor's cat." Admittedly, drowning the neighbor's cat didn't really clue me in as much as I would've liked. "So, she was angry?" He blinked back to me and stared. Like a long time.
- Darynda Jones
Collection: Cat
Image of Deng Xiaoping
Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?
- Deng Xiaoping
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
Oh, its big enough,” he said patronizingly, “but somehow I was expecting…you know.” He gestured with his hands, indicating something roughly the size of a house cat. “It’s the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl,” said Isabelle. -Jace & Isabelle, pg.349-
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of Sarada Devi
A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!
- Sarada Devi
Collection: Cat
Image of John le Carre
I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
- John le Carre
Collection: Cat
Image of Mikhail Bulgakov
Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Collection: Cat
Image of Mikhail Bulgakov
For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Collection: Cat
Image of Geoffrey Chaucer
Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Collection: Cat
Image of Charles Bukowski
Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.
- Charles Bukowski
Collection: Cat
Image of Lewis Carroll
Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!
- Lewis Carroll
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of William S. Burroughs
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.
- William S. Burroughs
Collection: Cat
Image of Eric S. Raymond
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
- Eric S. Raymond
Collection: Cat
Image of Lewis Carroll
I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.
- Lewis Carroll
Collection: Cat
Image of Lewis Carroll
And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
- Lewis Carroll
Collection: Cat
Image of Henry Blodget
Successful publication is all about the mix. What Buzzfeed discovered was that people like cat pictures. We can pretend to be embarrassed about that as a species, but it is actually a truth. So Buzzfeed publishes a lot of cat pictures. But they use the money from cat pictures to build an exceptional newsroom that publishes stories that far fewer people want to read, but it is very important journalism.
- Henry Blodget
Collection: Cat
Image of Julia Child
She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
- Julia Child
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself." Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas." Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of Lewis Carroll
"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
- Lewis Carroll
Collection: Cat
Image of Lewis Carroll
Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.
- Lewis Carroll
Collection: Cat
Image of Mikhail Bulgakov
Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Collection: Cat
Image of James Arthur Ray
While the cat's away, the mice will play.
- James Arthur Ray
Collection: Cat
Image of Dante Alighieri
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
- Dante Alighieri
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
Where's Magnus?" he said. AS he looked toward the kitchen, Clary saw a bruise on his jaw, below his ear, about the size of a thumbprint. "Alec!" Magnus came skidding into the living room and blew a kiss to his boyfriend across the room. Having discarded his slippers, he was barefoot now. His cat's eyes shone as he looked at Alec.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of Dana Gould
They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino.
- Dana Gould
Collection: Cat
Image of Hans Zimmer
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came along, in the '70s, I suddenly thought, hang on a second, this is interesting. These things can become an instrument. So I just became very interested in them, and started, playing with electronics.
- Hans Zimmer
Collection: Cat
Image of Charles Bukowski
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.
- Charles Bukowski
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of Jimmy Carr
Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.
- Jimmy Carr
Collection: Cat
Image of Rakim
I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
- Rakim
Collection: Cat
Image of Mikhail Bulgakov
I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Collection: Cat
Image of Julie Kagawa
Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?
- Julie Kagawa
Collection: Cat
Image of Geoffrey Chaucer
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of P. C. Cast
If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.
- P. C. Cast
Collection: Cat
Image of P. C. Cast
My cat is not insane, she's just a really good actress.
- P. C. Cast
Collection: Cat
Image of Cassandra Clare
If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand?
- Cassandra Clare
Collection: Cat
Image of Pam Brown
Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.
- Pam Brown
Collection: Cat
Image of Pam Brown
A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.
- Pam Brown
Collection: Cat