Cat Quotes
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My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
Matthew Pearl
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
Petrarch
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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
Ernest Hemingway
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I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.
Rachel Hartman
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Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
Alvin Martin
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There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.
Andre Norton
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I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
Brian Setzer Stray Cats
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Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.
Loretta Swit
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Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
T. S. Eliot
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I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and obvious.
Chelsea Leyland
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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
Vita Sackville-West
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I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.
Nalini Singh
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A cat may looke on a King.
John Heywood
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Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.
Beverley Nichols
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I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.
Daryl Hannah
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Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.
Rufus Choate
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The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'
Donald Miller
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I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.
Zach Anner
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Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
S. Parkes
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This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
Jayma Mays