Herding Cats Other Sayings

#1. 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

#2. Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

#3. I was thinking more of laughter and smiles. For example, the feeling I get when I read a good book.

Scott D. Southard

#4. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#5. Making movies is like herding cats.

Eric Fellner

#6. Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

Al Sharpton

#7. Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

Neil Gaiman

#9. herding cats and shoveling smoke.

Eric Metaxas

#10. Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.

Lisa Wingate

#11. Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

Louis J. Camuti

#12. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.

Nalini Singh

#13. The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Albert Einstein

#14. It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

William H. Calvin

#15. My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Leonard Nimoy

#16. Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

John Naughton

#17. [Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.

James Goss

#18. Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat.

Tanner Colby