Cat Quote by William Safire

Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the…

— Jimmy Carr

“I've often seen a cat without a grin...but a grin without a cat!It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!" Alice's…

— Lewis Carroll

Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily…

— Chris Pavone

“Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.”

— David Crystal

Funny how things turn out, I have swallowed one of the nevers I once prematurely declared. Well its a lesson learned, though in such…

— Trinity Chasara

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really…

— Noah Hawley

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

— Ali Liebegott

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many…

— Lewis Carroll

“My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi and…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Double-clicking on his inbox, Jason noted that one of the three messages was from Suzy, aka ButterfliesInMyTummy, and his mood lifted. It was the…

— Tammy Cohen

“Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes call “exformation,” which is a certain quantity…

— David Foster Wallace

“didn’t speak Feline, but by God that cat knows English.”

— Shannon Hill