Mice Quotes - Page 18

• What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
  [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

  Horace

  Mountain, Ridiculous, Born

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• A mouse relies not solely on one hole.

  Plautus

  Holes, Rely

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• Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Home, Class

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• Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

  Mae West

  Cat, Hollywood, Television

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• Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Dog, Self Esteem, Vanity

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.17

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• When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Lightning, Innocence, Sometimes

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.161, Northwestern University Press

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• When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.

  Chief Joseph

  Morning, Fall, Hunting

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• I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.

  Djuna Barnes

  Bridges, Gaps, Potatoes

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

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• my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

  Ana Castillo

  People, Ears, Waste

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books

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• I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!

  Anne Beatts

  Desire, Stronger, Stereotype

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• Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Wall, Winter, Popcorn

  Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it's not really a human sound.

  Teddy Thompson

  Thinking, People, Sound

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• Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Destiny, Play, Computer

  "Buzz Aldrin: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?

  Julian Tuwim

  Girl, Boys, Saws

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• In America we've spent over a billion dollars on autism research. What have we got for that? We've not seen anything that's appreciably impacted the quality of life of autistic people, regardless of their place on the spectrum. Quite frankly, we've spent $1bn figuring out how to make mice autistic and we'll spend another $1bn figuring out how to make them not autistic. And that's not what the average person wakes up in the morning aspiring to. They think: am I going to be able to find a job, to communicate, to live independently, either on my own or with support? Those are the real priorities.

  Ari Ne'eman

  Morning, Jobs, Real

  "Andrew Wakefield: autism inc" by Alex Hannaford, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
  [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

  George Herbert

  Heirs, Holes

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• It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.

  George Herbert

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• The Catt sees not the mouse ever.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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• Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

  Johnny Marr

  Teenager, Interesting, Joining

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• I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

  Johnny Marr

  Song, Writing, People

  "Johnny Marr has no negative thoughts about The Smiths, seriously". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2012.

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• When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

  Keri Russell

  Age Difference, Differences, Clubs

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• My field-mouse had made a set of brand-new tracks; here and there they etched themselves, following the brown flowers. It seemed as if uncommon spirits had seized their little maker, for sometimes he had leaped a yard, the festive mite! There was no other track pursuing; the leaps must have been mere joy.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Flower, Track, Joy

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• Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Long, People, Meat

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• When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

  P.B. Kerr

  Cat, Kitchen, Rats

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• Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

  Toni Morrison

  Games, Snakes, Lions

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