Mice Quotes - Page 23

• A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cities, Paris, Mountain

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

  Mason Cooley

  Garden, Snakes, Paradise

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• The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Plans

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• Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

  Beatrix Potter

  Cat, Sunday, Two

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• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  Walt Disney

  Cute, Children, Animal

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

  Brenda Ueland

  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Disney Animation, Organization

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Patience, Two, Diligence

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Next, Boring

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• [Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  Walt Disney

  Brother, Business, Years

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Independence, Minnie Mouse

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

  Walt Disney

  Kansas, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Survival, Important

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• You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Science, Names

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• Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Writing, Messages, Email

  "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.

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• Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
  but no mouse would ever construct
  a mousetrap.

  Albert Einstein

  Bombs, Atomic Bomb, Mankind

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• Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

  Walt Disney

  World, Fancy, Fame

  c.1966 Comment to his wife during his last illness. Quoted in Leonard Mosley Disney's World (1985).

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• Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, People, Four

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• First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Ipods, Firsts

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.60, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

  Walt Disney

  Attachment, Should Have, World

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• The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.

  John Muir

  Morning, Stars, Moving

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.203, The Mountaineers Books

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• What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

  Helen Keller

  Shoes, Half, Glitter

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.8, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

  Michael Azerrad

  Wisdom, People, Musical

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• We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.

  Russ Carnahan

  Cells, Lines, Stem Cell

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• The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

  James Ellroy

  Doors, People, Waiting

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