Prowling Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry…
— Russell Baker
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.
— Karel Capek
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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
— Jean Burden
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
— Tama Janowitz
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Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing…
— Charles Dickens
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...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a…
— Bruno Tonioli
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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the…
— George Orwell
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There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable…
— Rick Perry
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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A…
— Charles Dickens
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Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it…
— Guy de Maupassant
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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of…
— Jack Kerouac
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.…
— Anne Carson
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A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet…
— Marissa Meyer
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
— Michael Dirda
Who Wrote These Prowling Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Prowling Quotes as follows: