Dog Quotes - Page 32

• Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

  James Patterson

  Running, Kids, Knowing

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end. I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God. I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Worry, House

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry Including "The Life of the Virgin Mary"”, Annmarie s Kidder

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• A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hands, Eric, Gestures

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.898, Penguin

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• That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

  Ally Carter

  Spinning Around, Circles, Sound

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.

  Italo Calvino

  Moon, Night, Sky

  Italo Calvino (2014). “The Complete Cosmicomics”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Eye, Blue, Huskies

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.40, Penguin

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• A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years.

  Jane Yolen

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky into the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with a perplexed expression on his face. "Well, eat it back up," William hissed. "Don't waste it." Cough gave a tiny whine. "I'm not eating your puke." Cough panted at him. "No.

  Ilona Andrews

  Expression, Waste, Tiny

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.180, Penguin

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• Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.

  Jen Lancaster

  Owning A Dog, Cracks, Expensive

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.142, Penguin

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• A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Cancer, Night, Black

  Yasunari Kawabata (2017). “House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories”, p.12, Vintage

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• People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Depressing, People, Facts

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Concrete”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Hands, Soul, Ears

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them.

  Alyson Noel

  Positive Energy, Example, Loyal

  Alyson Noel (2011). “A Riley Bloom Novel: Radiance”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them.

  John Connolly

  Mother, Cat, People

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• Eve: "She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you?" Roarke: "What, die?" Eve: "Leave me all this stuff." Roarke: "Only you would be annoyed by that.

  Nora Roberts

  Annoyed, Pet, Would Be

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• The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)

  Stephen King

  Rain, Sunshine, Winning

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• I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Boys, Glasses, Long

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• If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

  Garth Nix

  Comforting, Unattractive, Lasts

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• As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same direction, like a pair of dogs catching a scent on the wind. Cressida notices and asks what lies that way. We admit, without acknowledging each other, it's our old hunting rendez-vous place. She wants to see it, even after we tell her it's nothing really. Nothing but a place where I was happy, I think.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Thinking, Hunting

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.

  Lee Child

  Men, People, Choices

  Lee Child (2006). “Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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• Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Differences, Knows

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• What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Lying, Men

  Robert E. Howard (2015). “The Start Conan the Barbarian Super Pack”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach for gain. Death helps you celebrate life. War helps you work for peace. A flood makes you glad you're still standing. And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright.

  Joan Bauer

  War, Cat, Loss

  "Stand Tall". Book by Joan Bauer, August 26, 2002.

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• Tohru: Call a doctor, or a vet, or anybody! Oh, Mr. Postman, it's terrible! You see, they're animals!
  Postman: Uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's your mail.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Smart, Good Day, Animal

  "Fruits Basket". Season 1, Episode 2: "The Sohma Curse", www.imdb.com. July 12, 2001.

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• Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Doors, Old Dog, Knows

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2009). “This Book Is Not Good For You”, p.177, Hachette UK

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