Top 100 Cat S Quotes
#1. She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
Derek Walcott
#2. A cat's body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying," Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. "You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission." Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.
Rachel Vincent
#3. [Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.
Jonah Goldberg
#4. You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Cat's waiting is a kind of love.
Jie Zhang
#7. Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.
George R R Martin
#8. The sun rolls along up Fourteenth Street and the ghost of a habit turns Cat's face into the light. She shields her eyes and looks east, half expecting to see her father, a sun-blown shadow in the diorama box of his newsstand.
Cari Luna
#9. Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle.
David Quammen
#10. My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle.
Andy Kindler
#11. I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.
Si Robertson
#12. Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.
Virginia Woolf
#13. You really do think you're the cat's pajamas, don't you? I asked Raphael, annoyed with his arrogance.
Katie MacAlister
#14. I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'
Jeb Bush
#15. I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend ... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents
Jeaniene Frost
#16. Precious," the cat said and leaned forward, angling his head. Shane longed for the cat's kiss, but instead the cat bent to nip Shane's chin. "So mine. And so hungry.
Kari Gregg
#17. You never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.
Beryl Reid
#19. Imprinting."
I heard the smile disappear from Cat's face. "Next."
I repeated myself.
"Are you referring to Stephenie Meyer's books?"
"Yes," I said. A little unwillingly.
Cat chuckled. "There's no shame in reading enjoyable books. But this topic is better discussed later."
"Got it.
Shannon Delany
#20. I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.
George Dzundza
#21. You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I dont know. He ran away." -Magnus & Clary, pg.221-
Cassandra Clare
#22. Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.
Kathi Appelt
#23. No cat's going to listen to her lies when
Erin Hunter
#24. When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.
Mike Sanders
#25. I should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a secret.
Tana French
#26. A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.
Bob Dylan
#27. I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.
Johnny Carson
#28. His eyes, green with yellow sparks, and with elongated pupils like a cat's, made his grandmother gasp and say: 'Jesus! He has the devil's eyes!
Olga Nunez Miret
#30. Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.
T. S. Eliot
#31. You can pull the toy away from the cat's reach a few times but always make sure that you let it win eventually. This helps build confidence.
Ace McCloud
#32. The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, more of a ragged slot, dirty yellow. And you'll see that the white of a goat's eye is all black.
Eugene Marten
#33. I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.
A. L. Rowse
#35. Bobby spotted the black cat lying on a windowsill, sunning itself. They both walked over to it. Bobby tentatively reached out and rubbed his hands across the cat's belly. The cat purred. "Nice," the cat said dreamily. Bobby whipped his hand back.
D.J. MacHale
#36. After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
Jenny Eclair
#37. A brick could be used like sandpaper, to smooth out a cat's rough tongue.
Jarod Kintz
#38. The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?
Alexander McCall Smith
#39. With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
Theodore White
#40. Well, it's no good crying over spilled potion, I suppose . . . but the cat's among the pixies now . . .
J.K. Rowling
#41. Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. Liked me, liked me."
"Liked you, liked you?" Magnus buried his grin in the cat's fur. "Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don't recall saying anything to Isabelle ...
Cassandra Clare
#42. Her nature is like a demonstrative cat's; she is delicate, acutely sensitive to cold, and incredibly caressing in her ways.
Colette
#43. The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."
Elmer Davis
#44. He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.
Gillian Flynn
#45. During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#46. A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
Andy Rooney
#47. That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!
Marian Keyes
#48. Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet. Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.
Erin Bow
#49. El-lie, Come out, come out, wherever you are! The cat's finally away. Time for the mouse to come out and play.
Kelly Oram
#50. If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.
Jason Hawes
#51. If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.
Kristen Stewart
#52. To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
Aileen Fisher
#53. I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
Marion Cotillard
#54. How do you listen to this shit? It sounds like two cat's screwing in a trashcan.
Colleen Masters
#55. They mouth love's language. Gnash
The thirteen teeth
Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.
Love's breath in you is stale, worded or sung,
As sour as cat's breath,
Harsh of tongue.
James Joyce
#56. Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
Robert Lowell
#57. Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.
Adele Griffin
#58. Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.
P.G. Wodehouse
#59. While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.
Simon R. Green
#61. I dined on what they called "robber steak"--bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks, and roasted over the fire, in simple style of the London cat's meat!
Bram Stoker
#62. I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.
Nick Antosca
#63. They are merely partaking of the evolutionary miracle found most obviously in man, but not necessarily any more useful to his survival than a raven's, or a cat's, or a chimp's is to its.
William H Gass
#64. Female high schoolers in underwear and cat's ears are what I find hot!
NisiOisiN
#65. If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.
Alex Ferguson
#66. You can't actually hire us. Check out the room you're in. We don't need your money... That cat's lunch costs more than most government salaries... We can't even spend all the money we have. In fact, it should be us offering you money, just to get rid of some of it. Want some money? - Dan
C. Alexander London
#67. I will venture as far as to say that I am my cat's favorite person of all time. It is a wonderfully glorious feeling to be someone's favorite.
Olivia Vetrano
#68. A cat's secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.
Wendy Beck
#69. You like the party?
Is it in honour of anything?
My cat's birthday.
Where's your cat?
I don't know, he ran away.
Cassandra Clare
#70. Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.
Neil Gaiman
#71. I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
Danica McKellar
#72. It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
John Heywood
#73. I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
William Cowper
#74. Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
Cleveland Amory
#75. Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
Charles Stuart Calverley
#76. If something is meant to happen, it will," he pointed out calmly. "And no cat's will is strong enough to stop it from happening.
Erin Hunter
#77. Photography is without mercy
though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
Nick Harkaway
#78. Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.
Fredrik Backman
#79. A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.
Heather O'Neill
#80. Cat's heated gaze meets mine, and she smiles. Another piece of my heart is hers.
Rachel Harris
#81. Mercy's eyes held equal parts shock, and delight. "Riley."
He felt his lips stretch even wider. "I think we need to celebrate with some brand-new etchings."
His cat's laugh was surprised and warm and the sound of home. "It's your etchings that got us into this position.
Nalini Singh
#82. For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.
Peter Orszag
#83. The cat's manner of rejection was like cold, white light.
Takashi Hiraide
#84. One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.
Robin Hobb
#85. When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw ...
Cassandra Clare
#86. Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
David Allan Coe
#87. Mealtime
"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn't he so very sweet
To tell me it was time to eat?"
(From A CAT'S GARDEN OF VERSES)
Henry N. Beard
#88. A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year, dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Don't stand behind a strange horse, don't look a strange dog in the eyes, don't rub a strange cat's belly, and for God's sake, don't let strange men handcuff you to your bed.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. A world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.
Abraham Verghese
#91. Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.
Jerry Climer
#92. Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.
Jamais Cascio
#93. Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so
to see you sitting up there so prim.
Thomas Hardy
#94. And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.
Harry Chapin
#95. Unk, you crazy son-of-a-bitch, I love you. I think you are the cat's pajamas.
Kurt Vonnegut
#96. A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs
#97. A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat's culture?
Anno Nomius
#98. I've heard that you're the cat's whiskers, M. Poirot."
"Comment? The cat's whiskers? I do not understand."
"Well that you're It."
"Madame, I may or may not have brains - as a matter of fact I have - why pretend?
Agatha Christie
#99. The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules.
Ted Tinling
#100. Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.
Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.
Anthea Carson
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