Hounds Quotes - Page 4

• I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face. He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinchingher painfully. And that's more than little birds can do, isn't it? I never got my song.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dog, Song, Lying

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.976, Bantam

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• We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

  Herman Melville

  Swings, Anchors, Sea

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

  Henry Adams

  Mind, President, Firsts

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• The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Strong, Party

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

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• Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Rose, Legs, May

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• You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

  Elvis Presley

  Friendship, Dog, No Friends

  Elvis Presley (2005). “Elvis Presley”, p.44, Berklee Press

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• I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

  Rick Baker

  Teenager, Monsters, Doe

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• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  Dan Auerbach

  Dog, Brother, Guitar

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• Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

  John Fogerty

  Dog, Heart, Men

  Song: I Saw It On T.V, Album: Centerfield

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• I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Clouds, Turtles

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Feet, Rocks

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• I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love.

  Arthur Bradford

  Dog, Unconditional Love, Thinking

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think media think it's going to be good for ratings, and, two, because they know they have a lot of material to work with. If Donald Trump were to ever become the nominee, immediately, the hounds of hell would descend on him. They're going to tear him apart, everything he's ever done, from not releasing his taxes, to all of his failed business dealings.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Media, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

  David Livingstone

  Horse, Men, Thinking

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• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

  George Santayana

  War, Ambition, Buddhism

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• I have basset hounds. I have four now, I've had more in the past, and I relate to them because physically we're similar, in that they have very short legs and kind of long torsos, and I do as well.

  Ron Clements

  Past, Long, Legs

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I posted some story about the Arizona State baseball coach getting into a fight with an autograph hound, and it was a disastrous thing. The guy rescinded his story. It proved to me that I'm not cut out to be a proper journalist. I'm much better sitting around and making fun of journalists and telling them what terrible journalists they are than being an actual journalist.

  Drew Magary

  Baseball, Fun, Fighting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Summer, Cat, Winter

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.413, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

  Marie Corelli

  Animal, Giving, Special

  Marie Corelli (2016). “Innocent”, p.391, Marie Corelli

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• ["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

  Kate Bush

  Together, Albums, Firsts

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154

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• I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

  Elizabeth Smart

  Running, Sex, Heart

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• You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody looks at you across the table and says, "What do you think about a movie where Miley Cyrus switches souls with a basset hound?" You need to be able to sit there and figure out how to make that possibly shootable.

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.gq.com

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