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The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.
Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.
People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on,' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.
I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat.
Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.
A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.
I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and then always build, always go higher.
Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.
My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?
My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.
I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.
Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.
Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.
The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.
I always joke that I'd like to be a cat 'cause then I'll have nine lives, and then I can do like everything. But that's really hard.
The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
My mum and dad came from lower-working-class Glasgow, which was tough. Literally, if you see a cat there with a tail, it's a tourist.
“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.
But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.
I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.
I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.
I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002.