Dog Quotes - Page 24

• And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away

  William Faulkner

  Echoes, Air, Breathing

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Feuds, Conclusion, Witness

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  The Common Law Lecture 1 (1881)

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• Ew. Someone put the dog out, "Rosalie murmured wrinkling her nose. Have you herd this one, Psycho? how do a blond's brain cells die?" She didn't say anything. Well?" I asked."Do you know the punch line or not?" She looked pointedly at the TV and ignored me. Has she heard it?" I asked Edward. No." He answered. Awesome. So you'll enjoy this, bloodsucker--a blond's brain cells die alone.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Cells, Brain, Say Anything

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• It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

  Jim Harrison

  Forget, Easy, Seven

  Jim Harrison (2011). “The Road Home”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.

  Donita K. Paul

  Cat, Simple, Bird

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.274, WaterBrook

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• Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Miracle, Luck, Tears

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• President Bush, have a hot dog with me.

  Stephen Colbert

  President, Hot, President Bush

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• All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.

  Stephen Colbert

  Truth, Sorry, Kids

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• Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

  Winston Churchill

  Letting Go, Breathing, Noses

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• If I’m not back in a few hours…well, I don’t want to think about that. I might change my mind about doing this. I’m thinking happy thoughts. Creamed dog innards and rotten steak. Yeah. Yum! (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Mind, Rotten

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.268, Macmillan

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• It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

  Robin McKinley

  Given, Straightforward

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.268, Open Road Media

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• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, Believe, Eye

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• All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he said, "Love you," and she had never said it back or even taken the trouble to name him - and manage somehow to fly away on wings that had not soared for six years.

  Toni Morrison

  Love You, Taken, Light

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• Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

  Miranda July

  Girl, War, Men

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Night, Wish, Attention

  "Silver Blaze" (1892)

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• Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

  John Cheever

  Children, Men, Novel

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• He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.

  Meredith Ann Pierce

  Doe, Littles, Firsts

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• A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

  Mary Oliver

  Rain, Law, Smell

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.49, Penguin

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• The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Two, Voice

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wise, Sweet, Ignorance

  Ray Bradbury (1991). “On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays”, Plume

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• It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a lascivious dream. "I didn't know they still made them like that," he said.... "Cool, tough, retro-manly. The kind who only cries if someone just ran over their dog. The big chested guy we can indulge our pathetic Daddy complexes with.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Eye, Daddy

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• It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

  John Steinbeck

  Cat, Different, Fever

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.201, Penguin

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Moving, Loss, Son

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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