Mice Quotes - Page 5

• They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hair, Mad, Nests

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them.

  Michael Jackson

  Hero, Character, People

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• One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice from being killed. “Is this true, daughter?” Thomas Bowman had rumbled, his gaze filled with ire as he stared at Daisy. “It could be,” she had allowed. “But there is another explanation.” “And what is that?” Bowman had asked sourly. Her tone turned congratulatory. “I think we are hosting the most intelligent mice in New York!

  Lisa Kleypas

  Daughter, New York, Intelligent

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• It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, People, Sandwiches

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• He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hurt, Hands, Peaceful

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.47, Penguin

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• I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, Wheels, Giants

  Source: collider.com

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• Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Distance, Men

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• Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Vampire, Best Laid Plans

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.44, Penguin

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• Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Believe, Exercise, Princeton University

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• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

  Plutarch

  Mountain, Made, Old Proverb

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.814, 谷月社

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• I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

  Keanu Reeves

  Suits, Mickey, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

  Plautus

  Political, Doe, Politics

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• T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Night, House

  1822 The Night Before Christmas.

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• New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Cat, Swings, Games

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• Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Zero, Cat, Hunting

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview with Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

  Christopher Meloni

  Baby, Jobs, Cat

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• I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

  Jan Struther

  Cat, Kitchen, Black

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.

  May Agnes Fleming

  Disappointment, Mountain, Labor

  May Agnes Fleming (2014). “The Baronet's Bride: Or a Woman's Vengeance”, p.38, The Floating Press

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• I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

  Ziggy Marley

  Bird, Pet, Littles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Photography, Cost, World

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mean, Ducks, Drawing

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• I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Mickey, Emblems

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

  Jon Stewart

  Cutting, Wind, Comedian

  "Jon Stewart Puts His Slant on Daily Show News" by Terry Jackson, The Charleston Gazette, jon.happyjoyfun.net. January 09, 1999.

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• There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Team, Cat, Games

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• Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

  Mira Grant

  Religious, Boring, Figures

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