Barbara Woodhouse Quotes

#1. The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created,

Jim Brown

#2. Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.

Orrin Hatch

#3. Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Elbert Hubbard

#4. One has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Barbara Woodhouse

#5. The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

Barbara Woodhouse

#6. There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.

Barbara Woodhouse

#7. Delilah's mother cleans other people's houses, and she reminds me a bit of another story from Rapscullio's shelves, about a young scullery maid who possesses both glass footwear and inner beauty, which makes a prince fall head over heels for her.

Jodi Picoult

#8. I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

Barbara Woodhouse

#9. To be a runner was not to look a certain way. Running was not a sport. It was a lifestyle.

Lee Krinsky

#10. Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

Barbara Woodhouse

#11. I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world ...

Barbara Woodhouse

#12. Football is my life. There is no question about that.

Chad Ochocinco

#13. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

Barbara Woodhouse

#14. I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

Barbara Woodhouse

#15. Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.

Barbara Woodhouse

#16. I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

Alicia Vikander

#17. I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

Barbara Woodhouse

#18. Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#19. Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot ...

Barbara Woodhouse

#20. When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

Barbara Woodhouse

#21. The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a dog were in my opinion all God-given for one purpose only-to make complete fools of us human beings.

Barbara Woodhouse

#22. So this is what sex with you would be like." I can't resist teasing him. "I was hoping you'd participate a little more." He finally says something. "I'd participate. So well, you wouldn't walk straight the next day.

Sally Thorne

#23. I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.

Barbara Woodhouse