Cat Quotes · Page 40

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

— Andre Norton

We almost decided on a dog and a fox before we hit on the idea of using a cat and mouse.

— William Hanna

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Phury nodded. "And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.

— J.R. Ward

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

— Sam Walton

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella.

— June Foray

“I'm not a cat. Not normally, anyway. This is but a temporary... inconvenience.”

— Joshua Winning

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

— Haruki Murakami

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the…

— Joanna Lumley

I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue…

— Erma Bombeck

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's…

— Terry Pratchett

[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I…

— Freddie Hubbard

I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really…

— Erik Naggum

Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry…

— Pam Brown

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when…

— Jason Gann

“You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that!…

— Jeaniene Frost

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your…

— Anonymous

There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is…

— Hans Holzer

I am semi-ambivalent about being on camera - sort of low-key. I don't like being on camera stuff that much. I like…

— Adam Carolla

We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On…

— Witold Gombrowicz

I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a…

— David Leavitt

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon…

— Jeff VanderMeer

When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like…

— Spalding Gray

I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours…

— Anonymous

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

— Stephen Hawking

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp,…

— James Thurber

My name is Echo. I dream of cats with stars in their fur.

— Erin Hunter

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

— Terry Pratchett

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

— Jenna Bush

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!

— Hiro Mashima

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

— Geoffrey Madan

... cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household...

— Charles Baudelaire

I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion

— Eyedea

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

— Louisa May Alcott

While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its…

— Bruce Fogle

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.

— William Cowper

One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach.

— Ian Dunbar

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

— T. S. Eliot

Look here: "Mo' money, mo' problems," my ass. You's a naive cat if you still believe that.

— Ol' Dirty Bastard