Rats Quotes - Page 21

• I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research on heart disease has really been based on men, and needs to be updated with research on women - even very early-stage research is done using male rats!

  Laura Bush

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "The First Lady's Quiet Victory". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sometimes, Eating, Appetite

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.

  David Letterman

  New York, Today, Saws

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• My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'

  Martin Shaw

  Jobs, Drama, School

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

  Josh Billings

  Traps, Fingers, Settings

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

  Emily Post

  Past, Land, Names

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Mountain, Looks

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• I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Long, Pet, Faces

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

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• The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Eye, Glowing

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone.

  Suzanne Collins

  Army, Long Ago, Bridges

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Army, Sacrifice

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• A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat. Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dad, Light, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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• WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Heart, Men

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• He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

  Brian Jacques

  Law, Woe, Paws

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall”, p.104, Penguin

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• Royce cast a harsh and anxious look at the prince. “What?” Alric asked. “I thought we discussed the importance of keeping a low profile.” “Oh, please.” The prince waved a hand at the thief. “I don’t think it will get me killed if this monk knows I’m the king. Look at him. I’ve seen drowned rats more formidable.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Kings, Thinking, Hands

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• A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. “Jasper does that if—” Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. “If he thinks you’re dead or too weak to fight.” “Jasper?” “I call him that, but I’ve also named the stones in my cell.” “I only counted mine,” Arista said. “Two hundred and thirty-four,” Degan replied instantly. “I have two hundred and twenty-eight.” “Did you count the cracked ones as two?” “No.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Horse, Fighting, Thinking

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• Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rip, Moving, Sitting

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.244, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick.

  Kim Harrison

  Ex Boyfriend, Alive, Former

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Black Magic Sanction”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

  Gunter Grass

  Has Beens

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• I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Paris, Doe

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• One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.

  Alfonso Ribeiro

  Baseball, Country, Fun

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• Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews apes, pigs and rats. All the non-believers are najis (filthy, impure) and hell bond. The Quran even instructs the Muslims to fight the unbelievers, chop their fingertips, behead them, crucify them and deal with them harshly. 5:33, 9:14, 9:73 However, Muslims went berserk when a Danish Newspaper published a few cartoons of Muhammad.

  Ali Sina

  Christian, Fighting, Pigs

  Source: myislam.dk

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• One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old, on my arm like this. She was like clamped on, and she's kicking. ... And then she got off and another random child just clamped on. It's like a rat. "Get off of me." "But I love you." "I don't know you, kid."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Daughter, Children

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• I think today we've gone so far technologically and also just emotionally and psychologically, I mean there's a lot of crime out there and there's a lot of stuff going on. People don't care that they're going to go to prison. They couldn't give a rat about the repercussions. They go out and they do what they do and they don't care about hurting anyone else.

  Johnny Depp

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

  "Johnny Depp Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 1, 2009.

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