Dog Quotes · Page 37

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

— James Ellroy

I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.

— Mary Gordon

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

— Solomon Northup

If I found Yoko Ono floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.

— Joan Rivers

The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails and not their tongues

— Anonymous

Hypnosis. You know, I'm not a big fan of that bark like a chicken, cluck like a dog stuff.

— Jack O'Neill

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

— Bill Hicks

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I mean, if someone wants to buy a dog that's their business, but I would definitely say adopt, don't shop.

— Skai Jackson

On 'Downsizing,' I had a trailer, and I got to bring my dog to work, and I thought, 'I've made it: I'm…

— Hong Chau

I like hot dogs. I like eggplant. I like pizza and creamed corn and beer. But I don't like Arabs.

— Zach Braff

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay…

— Susan Cheever

To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will…

— Charles Darwin

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and…

— Tracy K. Smith

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

— George Saunders

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this…

— Frans de Waal

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken…

— Charles Lamb

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven…

— Mark Twain

It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in…

— Ti West

Dogs have found themselves in an odd predicament by living with humans. In the wild, dogs don't need humans to achieve balance.…

— Cesar Millan

A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where…

— Dani Shapiro

It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced…

— Marc Ian Barasch

Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs,"…

— Anonymous

I'm a cat person, I'm a dog person, I work in wildlife rescue.

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

— Barbara Woodhouse

“One day Your dog is going to safe your life, that's a fact.”

— Deyth Banger

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

— Doc Watson

Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.

— Adele

“Dogs aren't are whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

— Anonymous

“You mean less to me than the dog s__t I scraped off the bottom of my shoe!”

— Emma Paul

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

— Robbie Robertson

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

— Lionel Shriver

“The dumbest dog can sit and watch. What takes brains is knowing when to look away.”

— David Mitchell

I'm a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.

— Danielle de Niese

He who wants to kill a dog says that he has urinated against the mosque.

— Vikrant Parsai

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

— Ha Jin

the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

— Marge Piercy

My dog's name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.

— W. Bruce Cameron

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

— Mahatma Gandhi