Ferret Out Quotes

#1. Can I not get so much of my own will? Is not the thing feasible? Yes - yes - the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it. (Ch 10)

Charlotte Bronte

#2. A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.

Nolan Bushnell

#3. Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

Meister Eckhart

#4. This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.

Mamoru Hosoda

#6. A bit unsporting, what?" he said. "Ought to ferret out the mystery before we go. Whole thing's like a detective story. Positively thrilling.

Anonymous

#7. I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

Ashley Madekwe

#8. Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Max Heindel

#9. There is a reason why the other person thinks and acts as they do. Ferret out that reason - and you have the key to their actions, perhaps to their personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

Dale Carnegie

#10. I have a percription ferret. I'm not a good judge of weird.

Gordon Korman

#11. The ferret didn't matter. Because there was something about Mick that wasn't a fake anything. And Winnie herself felt more real somehow, running around, looking for the little animal that meant so much to him.

Judith Ivory

#12. Cat and Dog were ganging up on Ferret last night.

Wendy Mass

#13. If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.

Agatha Christie

#14. Yearns creep upon the mandarin glow dipping into the horizon, bound to incarnate all the sleepy heads awakening around the globe.

C.C. Wyatt

#15. compliance, compliance begets tolerance, and tolerance brings peace." He flicks his ferret-like gaze across them all. "Disorder is unacceptable. The greater good depends upon all of you,

Joe Hart

#16. Ah, well, people can be a bit stupid abou' their pets, said Hagrid wisely. Behind him, Buckbeak spat a few ferret bones onto Hagrid's pillow.

J.K. Rowling

#17. And when we get there you can shave that fucking ferret's nest off your face.

Abigail Roux

#18. An animal of only instinct, Johnny Ferret, has in his actions drama, but no theater; theater requires that you draw a circle around the action and observe it from outside the circle; in other words, self-consciousness is theater.

Mary Ruefle

#19. If I'm ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I'll think, "What would a ferret do?" or, "How would a salamander respond to this situation?" Invariably, I find the right answer. I

Gail Honeyman

#20. A gut feeling is a mover and shaker. It charges up the mind and puts the body in motion. A gut feeling is this: it's alive.

C.C. Wyatt

#21. His Grace woke up in the morning red-eyed as a ferret and in roughly the same temper as a rabid badger. Had I a tranquilizing dart, I would have shot him with it without an instant's hesitation.

Diana Gabaldon

#22. You're just jealous of my beard."
"No. No, really not. It makes you look like you've got a ferret trying to shag your chin.

FayJay

#23. you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!

Georgette Heyer

#24. Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#25. A little
bunny or some kind of ferret was probably
there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

John Ashbery

#26. He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

Bill McLaren

#27. Thorn looks scrawny, but he's wily, and as fast as a ferret.

Erin Hunter

#28. There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

Cassandra Clare

#29. For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

Anatoly Rybakov

#30. OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing.

J.K. Rowling

#31. Don't talk to me."
"Why not?"
"Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret ...

J.K. Rowling

#32. You have the maturity of a ferret on amphetamines,

Ruby Lionsdrake

#33. Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

J.K. Rowling

#34. Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Jay Griffiths

#35. But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.

Kevin Hearne

#36. We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

Robin Williams

#37. That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?

Tom Holt

#38. I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

Katharine Whitehorn

#39. You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."
"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.

Cassandra Clare

#40. Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

Lisa Kleypas

#41. Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.

Cheshire Cat

#42. That's not a rat, that's my ferret.

Jennifer Aniston

#43. Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

Alton Brown

#44. One of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

Dean Koontz

#45. The ferret, hunting,
eyes on the ground,
never hears footsteps
of the hawk

Andrew Vachss

#46. Another trick - calculated to lure a different, more sophisticated customer - was to bury a piece in the back of the store, reverse the vacuum cleaner over it (instant antiquity!) and allow the nosy customer to ferret it out on his or her own - look,

Donna Tartt

#47. I recognize a few more of the attendees: Mustela fae - ferret-like creatures with long, venomous fangs and vulnerable craniums, a hedgehog being with the face of a sparrow, a pink woman with a neck as long as a flamingo. There

A.G. Howard

#48. No matter who you asked, the answer was always the same: Ferret was an irredeemable bag of cat shit.

Daniel Younger

#49. Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders.
"He was cute."
"So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [ ... ]

Simone Elkeles

#50. Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

Henry David Thoreau

#51. Passion comes from within, but you can find it anywhere.

C.C. Wyatt

#52. Maybe I would get a ferret. A cat just felt too benign. My kind of crazy deserved an ambiguously cute rodent with a penchant for biting.

L. H. Cosway

#53. The ferret sat and examined his foot "What in the world am I?" he asked, alarmed "I look like some sort of rodent!

Rachel Roberts