Dog Quote by Claire Messud Download Open image ““I’m a dog and she was a cat: I, slobbery and keen; she, self-contained and ultimately private.”” — Claire Messud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dog
“She's like one of those Siamese cats. You know - totally self-interested, way too beautiful, way too aware of the fact, and totally willing… — Melinda Metz Copy Share Image
“I was in love with the innocence of dogs, the purity of their affection. They didn't know enough to hide their feelings. They existed.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was well on my way to becoming the neighborhood cat lady. All I needed were the cats.” — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why I’m so crazy about cats. I like how they are soft and warm, and individualistic, kind of like me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You said I could pet you as long as I liked.” “Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me.” — W Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
“I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“Who would you be if you could have anything you wanted, whenever you wanted it? Sure, it seems like a nice idea, but I’d… — Erin Lyon Copy Share Image
“people loved their pets, often with a degree of openness they couldn’t allow themselves to express toward other people.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I don’t much care for people—never have, never will. I got my reasons. I never met a man half so true as a dog.… — Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“Kitty found herself in a moment of peril, and like all great women, she let the moment of crisis infuse her with strength she… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Life is about deciding what matters. It’s about the fantasy that determines the reality. Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d rather fly or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want -- for God's sake, I want to wake up.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/daughter/friend” instead;… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled-… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
A shoe dog is somebody that really loves shoes, and that was me. I was a runner... that became important to me, and it's… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
“I rub the ears of my dog, my stupid goddam ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around anyway and who… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image