Rat Quotes

319 Rat quotes by 257 unique authors

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. — Boyle Roche
Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail… — Rob Sheffield
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. — Michael Shermer
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. — Lily Tomlin
I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart… — Sam Taylor-Wood
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart,… — Bernard DeVoto
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while. — Tom Wilson
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind… — E. O. Wilson
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble. — Robert M. Sapolsky
When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look… — Dennis Miller
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A… — R. D. Laing
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. — Billy Corgan
I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,… — Charles Bukowski
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. — Anna Quindlen
Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures! — Jeff Smith
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think… — Marisha Pessl
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there,… — Kenneth Grahame
Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me… — Cassandra Clare
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like… — Kate DiCamillo
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’....… — Maya Angelou
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and… — Christopher Brookmyre
I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's… — Nancy Farmer
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How… — Roger Zelazny

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