Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
“Actually, Justina, I didn't just ring you to chat about what an undead murderer I was...right, degenerate whore as well. Did I… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
You just don't expect posh girls to grab your tits, call your trousers "too clitty" and use words like "pussy pelmet" but… — Susannah Constantine Copy Share Image
The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat,… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
(The tree bend over. Suddenly, a hiss and a meow sounded an instant before two cats darted off across the backyard.) Look,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“You wonder about me. I wonder about you. Who are you and what are you doing? Are you in a New York… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for… — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you… — Kathy Young Copy Share Image
Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“Ranunculus chose that moment to saunter inside, the big orange cat going straight across to Jack to rub against his trouser legs.… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Wrapping rubber bands around a watermelon is not journalism. It is entertainment. But the key to success in media has always been… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image