Cat Cat Sayings

#1. Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant. Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and ant. Ant advances along path. Ant halts, baffled. Ant back-tracks fast - straight at cat. Cat, alarmed, backs away. Man, standing, staring, laughs. Ant changes path again. Cat, calm again, watches again.

Lydia Davis

#2. Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.

Doris Lessing

#3. Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

Gladys Taber

#4. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Jim Shanahan

#5. Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

Louis Wain

#6. A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing ... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less ... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

Cat Stevens

#7. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

Marian McPartland

#8. If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.

Patricia Briggs

#9. There's shit that's random and shit you can control. It's up to you to choose what you'll react to and how to make your mark. What do you choose to control?

Cat Porter

#10. Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size?

Erin Hunter

#11. Taffy is the color of toast and butter.

Anne Michaels

#12. I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Peter Dinklage

#13. In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read the newspaper. There is no loud music, and cats are in charge.

Michael Showalter

#14. I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

Cat Deeley

#15. Meow" means "woof" in cat.

George Carlin

#16. Holy cow." Rene blew out a long, slow whistle and pressed a hand to her chest. "That man is enough to give a girl heart palpitations.

Cat Johnson

#17. They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.

Joe R. Lansdale

#18. The fog comes on little cat feet.

Carl Sandburg

#19. In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.

Asa Hutchinson

#20. Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

Cat Stevens

#21. The fourth cat stepped forward; Yellowfang didn't know his name. He was a skinny gray tom, and he studied Brokentail carefully before he spoke. I give you a life for truth. Without it, kin is set against kin, Clan against Clan. Hold fast to truth in all your dealings and let it guide your words.

Erin Hunter

#22. That was rude, you *are*! Rabbit knows a thing or two and I myself, don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.

Cheshire Cat

#23. I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me.

Danielle Panabaker

#24. Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten."
My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look.
Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right.
"It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven."
"Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.

Jeaniene Frost

#25. If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.

Cat Stevens

#26. It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

Lisa Kleypas

#27. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

#28. The knife cuts into the
sun.
the plate
breaks.
the cat yawns.

Charles Bukowski

#29. And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#30. Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.

Gerald Holton

#31. Clary?" he thought.
Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What's happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?"
"Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from the Smurfs?"
There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurfs question.

Cassandra Clare

#32. There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and you should feel like God and you should believe in God and you should be a capitalist. I don't buy any of that.

Steve Coogan

#33. Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming.

Elle Lothlorien

#34. You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.

Ann Rinaldi

#35. Bes snorted. "That's okay. I finally came to my senses and found the right girl. Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe." She stared at him blankly. "But I am the center of the universe." Bes

Rick Riordan

#36. Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Nikola Tesla

#37. Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

Leonard Michaels

#38. I couldn't believe this. My first very good friend had run off to Japan and never written me and now my second very good friend had stolen my cat.

Kristen Tracy

#39. Misty is the color of rain on a window.

Anne Michaels

#40. But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll

Shweta Ganesh Kumar

#41. Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.

Temple Grandin

#42. Hugging your cat can make you very happy, provided she doesn't scratch you.

Wilson Villanueva

#43. I heard a miaow nearby and looked down to see a moon-grey cat melting out of the shadows.

David Mitchell

#44. By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.

Fannie Flagg

#45. There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley W. Bates

#46. I am talking to a cat. A cat is talking to me.

Katherine Applegate

#47. I want you, Cat. I want you more than I've wanted anything since I fell.

Larissa Ione

#48. At morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock ...

John Geddes

#49. Good Lord," he muttered "They pick a mouse to tame a cat.

Hannah Kent

#50. I know I don't show it often, but I do have a heart. It beats and everything.

Cat Phoenix

#51. That's a fine-looking cat.

Kathleen Fuller

#52. It's not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That's what I'm left with: just me. And that's what scares me more than anything. Me.

Cat Clarke

#53. Carefully, I arrange the teapot, the little white cup, and the sugar bowl before me like an army. Defense? Or attack?

Cat Hellisen

#54. Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!

Michelle Gardner

#55. Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

Cat Stevens

#56. He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Lloyd Alexander

#57. Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn't notice. Poor

Robin Wasserman

#58. My favorite thing is when people underestimate me.

Cat Spydell

#59. Can you believe him? Does he think if he just dangle his boy bits at you like a cat toy you'll go scampering after him?"
"Of course he thinks that," said Karou. "This is his idea of a romantic gesture.

Laini Taylor

#60. Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

Katie Neipris

#61. Dammit, Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire." Lila

V.E Schwab

#62. Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!

Erin Hunter

#63. I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!

Zutty Singleton

#64. To the fans of the Night Huntress series, thank you for letting Cat and Bones into your lives. This one's for you!

Jeaniene Frost

#65. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#66. A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Henry David Thoreau

#67. The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?

Cheshire Cat

#68. Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

Alexis Ohanian

#69. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.

Alden Bell

#70. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#71. Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

Alvin Martin

#72. The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Robert Kiyosaki

#73. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William J. Bennett

#74. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.

Monroe Ariel

#75. You can't shave a cat with a shoe.

Ray Palla

#76. Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

Thelonious Monk

#77. I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

Robin Hobb

#78. I'm sure you've had many musicians in your soft spot.

Caisey Quinn

#79. In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

Doug Larson

#80. When she walked ... she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#81. It's always good to be recognized being the best new cat and then when I hold down my position and stay in the game for a minute, I want to see what kind of (expletive) I'm winning then.

Wiz Khalifa

#82. Rowley had thought at first the beast had no name; it had taken him a while to understand that it had a perfectly good, descriptive name to which it was as likely to answer as any other, and that name was Cat. There was something terribly Clem about that.

K.J. Charles

#83. I'm sure you're wrong," Cat murmured. "Teachers have to like all kids. It's in the job description.

J.M. Madden

#84. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Carl Van Vechten

#85. "The duke stopped beside Maddy's chair. He turned to Mr. Pember and in the sort of tone that could command regiments, uttered. "Cat."

Laura Kinsale

#86. You don't deserve Jack.
You don't deserve to sleep.
You don't deserve to live.

Cat Clarke

#87. Curiosity did NOT kill the cat; conventionality did.

Lisa Laird DiRosso

#88. But she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.

Anne McCaffrey

#89. My mom was kinda like a cat. She slept a lot.

Chelsea Handler

#90. I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

David Mitchell

#91. I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.

Cat Deeley

#92. I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

Lang Lang

#93. Fourth cat?" "The fourth must be found soon," fretted Broken

Erin Hunter

#94. Yum." She smacks her lips and mimes making a cat claw. She leans into me and whispers, "I am so going to be visiting him one-handed tonight in my fantasies.

Lauren Blakely

#95. Don't behave like a cat who is patiently waiting for the right time to attack its prey! For you, right time is now, suitable moment is now; use 'now' because any moment after 'now' is just a theory, it may never exist! Stop being patient, stop behaving like a fixed statue and move now!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#96. Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer.
Breath tickled my neck as he laughed. "I know. I'm truly gifted.

Jeaniene Frost

#97. I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

Abraham Verghese

#98. People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

Jay Rock

#99. You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

George Mikes

#100. However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

Barbara Holland