Cat Quotes - Page 40

• The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

  Marva Collins

  Dog, Art, School

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• I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.

  Stanley Clarke

  Stuff, Said, Great French

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• Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are... well... they aren’t mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.

  Julie Newmar

  Mean, Seductive, Attention

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• There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.

  Les Blank

  Doubt, Floating, Going Out

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• If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.

  Nathan Winograd

  Dream, Dog, Philosophy

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• You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to wrap theirselves up in mystery, perhaps only except for a hobby of jumbling up everything that is in order. And if the cat can, and usually so, make a great mystery of where it was when you were searching for it even if a moment ago it was sitting by your side, do not have any doubts: its ancestors had a great pleasure to surround its origin by mystery.

  Cleveland Amory

  Order, Your Side, Long

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• Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

  Cleveland Amory

  Sports, Dog, Baby

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• You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

  Cleveland Amory

  Stills

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• The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily carnivorous mammal with retractible claws, a distinctive sonic output, etc.? I'll bet not. You probably show the kid a lot of different cats, saying 'kitty' each time, until it gets the idea. To put it more generally, generalizations are best made by abstraction from experience.

  Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

  Children, Kids, Ideas

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• A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Caring, Cooking, Care

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• A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.

  Elayne Boosler

  Love, Women, Men

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• You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

  Theodore Parker

  Beauty, Kings, Eye

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• It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Zanzibar, Pacific Ocean

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.

  Wes Montgomery

  Block, Play, Piano

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• 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

  Names, Jazz, Call Me

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• 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, Sometimes

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• If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the kick of a dolphin, the reflexes of a cat. If you could have all these, you would have the body, you would have the tools. But you would not have greatness until you understand that the strongest muscle is the heart. To me, that's the soul of the Olympic Games.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Spring, Heart, Greatness

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• As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Kings, Games, Play

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• I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet. Without any conscious intention on my part, animals come to play a significant role in my fiction: in Three Junes, a parrot and a pack of collies; in The Whole World Over, a bulldog named The Bruce. To dog lovers, by the way, I recommend My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley -- by far the best 'animal book' I've ever read.

  Julia Glass

  Dog, Horse, Book

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• As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.

  Adam Rex

  Nice, Pet

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• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

  Ogden Nash

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Trouble

  "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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• I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

  Susan Boyle

  Sister, Brother, Thinking

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• I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

  Vanna White

  Morning, Children, Kids

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• Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

  William Safire

  Stories, Lines, Language

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