Mice Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

  Maurice Sendak

  Movie, Children, Two

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• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  J. C. Watts

  Past, Two, America

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• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  Jacki Weaver

  Growing Up, Son, Australia

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

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• Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

  David Parnas

  Ideas, Way, Needs

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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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• I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

  Stan Getz

  Band, Jazz, Kind

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• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Mean, Tennis, Bread

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• The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Light, Air

  Joseph Priestley (1775). “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air: Vol. II. By Joseph Priestley, ...”, p.102

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• Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!.

  Zhuangzi

  Cutting, Worry, Tree

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• What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

  Victor Hugo

  Cat, Creation, Proof

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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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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• 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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• The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall! He struck against evil! He struck for Martin! He struck for Log-a-Log and his shrews! He struck for dead Guosim! He struck as Methuselah would have wanted him to! He struck against Cluny the Scourge and tyranny! He struck out against Captain Snow's ridicule! He struck for the world of light and freedom! He struck until his paws ached and the sword fell from them!

  Brian Jacques

  Eye, Light, Snow

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

  Jean Ferris

  Rodents, Rats

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• ...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

  David Eddings

  Uncles, Animal, Talking

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• 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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• The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

  Edith Sitwell

  Women, Dresses, Next

  "Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind: an anthology".

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• The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Empowering, World, Environment

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.

  Betsy Blair

  Girl, Couple, Mean

  Betsy Blair (2003). “The Memory of All that: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris”, Knopf

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• Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

  Leslie Ludy

  Confused, Real, Hunting

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God”, p.6, Harvest House Publishers

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• If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Sparks, Thousand, Ten

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• I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.

  Cynthia Hand

  Couple, Sitting, Pumpkin

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.139, Egmont UK

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• President Obama was in Disney World today where he unveiled his new plan to create jobs. He was joined by Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse but not Goofy. He had to stay behind to tend to his vice presidential duties.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Presidential, Vices

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• We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Cheese

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