Prowling Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

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
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
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
Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle. — Karel Capek
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. — Jean Burden
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
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
...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
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. — D. H. Lawrence
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: