Cat Quotes - Page 16

• Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Names, People, Who We Are

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

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• It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

  James Denton

  Fighting, People, Desperate

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

  Barbara Holland

  Communication, Needs, Language

  Barbara Holland (2010). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

  Alexander Pope

  College, Inheritance, Dies

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Bathurst' (1733) l. 97

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

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Animal, Names, Giving

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.28, Grove Press

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• We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Jumping, Care, Way

  On journalism, in 'Time' 8 May 1950

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• 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

  Animal, Years, Splits

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• If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pet, Double Standard, Size

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Psychics, Snakes

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

  Christopher Smart

  Blessing, House, Spirit

  Christopher Smart, Karina Williamson (1990). “Selected poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dog, Horse, Writing

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• 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

  Important, Watches, Information

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• One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  People, Reason, Newspapers

  "In the Mecca: poems".

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• I can't have cats around me because they try to steal my energy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Trying, Energy, Stealing

  "Fierce creature". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2008.

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• Many cats are the death of the mouse.

  Kaspar Hauser

  Pet, Mice

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• I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

  Gina Gershon

  Travel, Difficult, Appropriate

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• You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Like You, Enough

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Blood, Ulcers

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• I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Film, Rating

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• We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

  Rue McClanahan

  Dog, Eight, Six

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.

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• Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

  William John Locke

  Women, And Love, Scratches

  William John Locke (2008). “Septimus (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.355, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Lonely, Loneliness, Needs

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1993). “The frightened wife, and other murder stories”, Thorndike Pr

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• A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Men, Ridiculous

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

  Tim Allen

  Dog, Dishes, Dies

  "Tim Allen Woofs it Up in The Shaggy Dog". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 03, 2006.

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• Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hate, Stupid, Ugly

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.66, Penguin UK

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