Rats Quotes - Page 12

• Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the Atlantic Ocean famous for its wild horses. I realize that the concept of wild horses probably stirs romantic notions in many of you, but this is because you have never met any wild horses in person. In person, they are like enormous hooved rats. They amble up to your camp site, and their attitude is: We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Attitude, Fall

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• The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

  Jaak Panksepp

  Play, Brain, Normal

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• I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Fire, Water

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.98

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• I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

  Stanley Spencer

  Men, Wish, Painting

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• Fancy computers are engaging in legalized front-running. The profits are clearly coming from the rest of us - our college endowments and our pensions. Why is this legal? What the hell is the government thinking? It's like letting rats into a restaurant.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, College, Thinking

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• Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting - the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Vegetables, Land, Water

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• One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

  Joss Whedon

  Jobs, Actors, Done

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• I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.

  Rob Cantrell

  Yelling, People, Guy

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• Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

  Perrie Edwards

  Hate, House, Energy

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• Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Cockroaches, Rabbits

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.346

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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Failure, Mean

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• I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

  Emile Hirsch

  Moving, Choices, Mazes

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Animal, Camping

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Home, Nba

  "O'Neal reacts strongly to Van Gundy flop comment" by Tim Reynolds, www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

  Claude Monet

  Sleep, Pigs, Devil

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Cat, Two

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Two, Battle

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• The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

  Lee Child

  Squirrels, Guy, Generations

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• All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Memories, Emotional, Long

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

  John Green

  Thinking, House, Warfare

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.226, A&C Black

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• It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Different, Sparrows, Made

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Palaces, Humans

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• No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

  Megan Abbott

  Age, Tilt, Seven

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

  Jennifer Worth

  People, Grace, Ignorant

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• Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Cat, Fighting, Thinking

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.79, Harlequin

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