Top 30 Dogs Speak Quotes
#2. I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.
Tamora Pierce
#3. Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense
have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?
John Banville
#4. He's got the charm of a rectal probe, and no social skills to speak of, so nobody wants to go for a drink with him. Let's face it, dogs have more to look forward to in later life - at least they can go to the park and roll in shit.
Christopher Fowler
#5. It was no secret joke that brought the smile and the sparkle in his eye, it was physics.
Feynman, Richard
#6. If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Mark Twain
#7. I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
Ernie Harwell
#8. It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact.
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Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored.
Terry Pratchett
#9. In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
Etgar Keret
#10. Whoever said dogs can't speak was never interested in learning another language.
Mark Winik
#11. After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#13. Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.
Jon Katz
#14. Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Orhan Pamuk
#15. In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.
Cristina Saralegui
#16. Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past.
Nick Trout
#17. This is the world I'm trying to bring down, the world trying to kill me and everything I care about.
Victoria Aveyard
#18. We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.
Desmond Tutu
#19. Dogs can't speak English. Nor any human language - save, in one notable exception, Luxembourgish, which is only comprehensible to bankers and Luxembourgers, and therefore hardly of any use at all. No, you've eaten something disagreeable and are having a nightmare, that's all.
Ransom Riggs
#20. They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
George Orwell
#21. You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.
Kevin Mitnick
#22. I kill myself for my body.
Cher
#23. I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
Nikolai Gogol
#24. There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. Dogs do speak, but only to those who listen
Orhan Pamuk
#26. The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.
Joshua Mohr
#27. I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.
Bill Nye
#28. Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
T. S. Eliot
#29. Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ...
Douglas Coupland