Van Morrison Quotes

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

Van Morrison

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• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Hand
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• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
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• I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Feel
  • Cat
  • Retirement

• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Cat
  • Gloves
  • Mice

• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Home
  • House
  • Small

• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  

  E. B. White
  • Thought
  • Cat
  • First Amendment

• People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Style
  • Acting

• There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Way
  • Cat
  • Wrong

• There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Man
  • Single
  • Quality

• If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.

  

  Walter Murch
  • She
  • Want
  • Start

• I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
  • Colors
  • Blues

• He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Cat

• I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Great
  • Dog
  • Cat

• I went to public high school in Scottsdale, Arizona, and I certainly wore a lot of makeup in high school. I experimented with a cat eye for a semester, and then, you know, a strong red lip because Courtney Love in Hole was all the rage.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • School
  • High
  • Strong

• Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Money
  • Lonely

• I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Environment
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Cat

• I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Men
  • Morning
  • Cat

• Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Children

• He's one guy who has given up more home runs than I did.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Up
  • Home
  • Guy

• I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.

  

  Willi Smith
  • Father
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Why
  • May

• I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Cat
  • Doe
  • Idols