Rats Quotes - Page 9

• Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Friends, Things In Life, Two

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• There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

  Ernst Mayr

  Biology

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• I am not yet born; O hear me.
  Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
  club-footed ghoul come near me.

  Louis MacNeice

  Prayer, Fear, Ghouls

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Science, Names

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• If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

  Richard Rosen

  Dog, Acting, Behaviour

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• I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Mardi Gras, Streets

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• Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

  Angus Wilson

  Feet, Envy, Effort

  Angus Wilson (1962). “The seven deadly sins”, Beaufort Books

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• I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

  Joseph Barbera

  Play, Actors, Convinced

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

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• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  Samantha Bee

  Real, Hair, Color

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• We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

  Sonny Bono

  People, Environment, Creatures

  "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

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• I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

  Harry Anderson

  Hollywood, Quarters

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

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• I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

  Josh Duhamel

  Running, Dad, Kids

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• I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.

  David Bowie

  Pain, Eye, Blood

  Song: Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed, Album: Space Oddity

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• It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

  Martin Amis

  Home, Writing, Holiday

  "The Sadistic Muse". Interview with Laura Miller, February 10, 1998.

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• August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Funny, Travel, Kings

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• I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

  Jamie Bell

  Cute, Thinking, Mind

  "Jamie Bell: I'm An Actor Obsessed". Interview, parade.com. September 4, 2008.

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• The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Political, Gone, Politics

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• To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Father, Science

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

  Rob Bell

  Fear, Real, Track

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• As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

  Lawrence Block

  Mother, Years, Giving

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• When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

  Mike Dirnt

  Song, Smell, Speak

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• Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lying, Book, Reading

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 65, 1799.

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• Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Mouths, Plans

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• ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pits, Records, Politics

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.20, See Sharp Press

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• There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Unique, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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