Whiskers Quotes

• Women with whiskers... its a bummer.

  Phil Robertson

  Bummer

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• Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

  Jean Burden

  Cat, Animal, Fire

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• We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Giving, Needs, Littles

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• Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Cat, Swimming

  Dean Koontz (2012). “False Memory: A thriller that plays tricks with your mind...”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb.

  Champfleury

  Lying, Cat, Animal

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• She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

  Marcel Proust

  Feet, Boat, Undies

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.737, Wordsworth Editions

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• You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

  Herman J. Mankiewicz

  Men, Speak, Knows

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• As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Silly, Thinking, People

  Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

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• The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable.

  Ilona Andrews

  Adorable, Long, Monsters

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.87, Penguin

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• The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

  Frank Zappa

  Beautiful, Makeup, Pancakes

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• To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

  Steven Tyler

  Needs, Knows

  Steven Tyler (2011). “Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Sight, Dust, Telescopes

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

  Brian Jacques

  Watches, Ears, Paws

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.150, Penguin

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• When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

  Saadi

  Men, Enemy, Curls

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• Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Lonely, Love You

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Glasses, Giving, Impression

  "Uncle Dynamite". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1948.

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• Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

  Ben Hecht

  People, Actors, Have Faith

  "Perfidy". Book by Ben Hecht, 1961.

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.

  Ilona Andrews

  House, Spoons, Knows

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.96, Penguin

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• With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

  Theodore White

  Cat, World, Tickling

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• The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable.” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Children, Kissing

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• There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

  Henry Cooper

  Silly, Golf, Boxing

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• Keeping the cat front-and-center was definitely a smart choice, from Tim and the animation department. Mr. Whiskers got referred to more than we actually saw him on stage. Seeing him on screen, you just love him.

  John August

  Smart, Cat, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.

  Mirabel Osler

  Funny, Dirty, Moving

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• In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Winning, Branches, Executive Branch

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.2, Macmillan

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