Rats Quotes - Page 18

• What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Psychology, Scales, Involved

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hair, Tails, Four

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• Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

  Michael Shermer

  Prayer, Religion, Labs

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Hero, Reality

  1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

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• If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the Underland a tomb Hear it scratching down below, Rat of long forgotten snow, Evil cloaked in coat of White, Will the Warrior drain your light? What could turn the Warrior week? What do burning Gnawers seek? Just a barely speaking pup That holds the Land of Under up Die the baby, die his heart Die his most essential part Die the peace that rules the hour, Gnawers have their key to power

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Heart, Warrior

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• For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Squares, Roots

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. 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

  Running, People, Different

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

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• I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

  Robert Bloch

  Baby, Fun, Fists

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• So do all animals react that way to you? I know you said rats steer clear." "Most do. They see a human, but they smell someting else. It confuses them. Canines are the worst, though." He paused. "No, cats are the worst. I really don't like cats." I laughed.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Cat, Animal, Smell

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.200, Penguin Group

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• I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Interesting, Research

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• I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

  J. Cole

  Nice, Long, Tails

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• When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

  Bruce Conner

  New York, Safe Haven, Mazes

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• You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

  Kevin Costner

  Jobs, Mazes, Way

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• My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Grandfather, Tanks

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• In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

  Bette Davis

  Race, Innocence, Guilty

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• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Kids, Guy, Working Together

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• I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

  Mos Def

  Believe, People, Social

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• Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Yoga, Cutting, Gym Rats

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• The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."

  Julian Fellowes

  Party, Men, Numbers

  "My family values". Interview with Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Hate, Heart, Pet

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2009.

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• The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Wall, Food, Heart

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• Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Swimming, Alex, Lessons

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats." Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.

  Michael Scott

  Men, Thinking, Suggestions

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.41, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

  James Clavell

  Kings, Luck, Together

  JAMES CLAVELL (1962). “KING RAT”

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