Mice Quotes - Page 3

• I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

  Rick Riordan

  Garden, Hunting, Museums

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Trying, Add

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.561, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Ducks, Example

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• With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Nests, Ruins

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Depressing, Laughter, Sight

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

  Annette Funicello

  Crush, Children, Clubs

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• Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Letting Go, Wrestling, Blue

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.167, Macmillan

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• When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Opportunity, Numbers, Trying

  "The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself — And All The Women Around You" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2015.

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• The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

  Annette Funicello

  Children, Clubs, Mickey

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• I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

  Annette Funicello

  Clubs, Mickey, Stills

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• My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

  Annette Funicello

  Heart, Soul, Clubs

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• Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

  Julian Barnes

  Real, Skeletons, People

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  Walt Disney

  People, Laughing, Secret

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• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

  John Lydon

  School, Character, Kids

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• In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Chess, Evaluation, Sometimes

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• You're a mouse studying to be a rat.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Rats, Study

  Quoted in Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners (1953)

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• The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

  Robert K. Massie

  Cat, Doe

  Robert K. Massie (2012). “Peter the Great: His Life and World”, p.558, Random House

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• Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.

  Woody Allen

  Life, Fun, Science

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

  Oswald Barron

  Cat, Belief, Preserves

  Oswald Barron (1924). “Day in and Day Out”

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Dream, Clothes

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Cat, Humble

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• My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Running, Atheist, Philosophy

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• The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.

  John Lydon

  Real, Color, Hair

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• A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Lunch, Sunrise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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