Quotes About A Dead Cat

#1. You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. 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

#3. I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

Russel Honore

#4. If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the guts of a dead cat is something I shall never understand.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. (I love that expression. "Swing a dead cat." Where the hell did it come from? Was swinging dead cats a thing at some point?)

Leslie Irish Evans

#7. It takes something to stand out a little, and you can't swing a dead cat on Ganymede without hitting five botany PhDs.

James S.A. Corey

#8. You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

Richard Hammond

#9. one look his fears of a dog-fighting ring were valid. Blood was spattered around a makeshift wooden ring. Chains were piled up in a corner. He could see where the cages had been placed in the grass by the indents, but they were gone now. A dead cat was dangling from a tree branch.

Kathleen Brooks

#10. For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat.

Lynn Margulis

#11. There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump - an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

Dave Barry

#12. One large bundle held their all - bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens - all but the cat; she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. It was time to chuck this life, with its Jo-Jos and Rodneys, its bloody burning children and walking-dead parents, just kick dirt over the whole show, like a cat burying its shit.

Richard Price

#14. Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.

Will Advise

#15. Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

Charlotte Gray

#16. The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

Glenn Greenwald

#17. We live in a world so horrifying, it frightens even the dead

Cat Winters

#18. They suggested that if you really want to hold a koala but can't, just get a furry pillowcase and fill it with lightly used cat litter. Or tie a bunch of sedated raccoons together. Or maybe hold a dead koala.

Jenny Lawson

#19. Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

Maria V. Snyder

#20. I thought you were dead."
Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.

Cassandra Clare

#21. I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

Jennifer McMahon

#22. Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

J.K. Rowling

#23. Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.

Salvador Plascencia

#24. Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

Louis Armstrong

#25. We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.
We let the stars shine into us.

David Almond

#26. Waiting for the response to a query is a little like being Schroedinger's cat. You are neither 'dead' nor 'alive', but some amorphous state in between.

Pippa Jay

#27. In short, if Cameron said "bunch of migrants" by accident, he is a dick, but if he said it on purpose, in order to draw the eye, dead-cat-style, away from the Google atrocity, which he did, then he is a bastard, which is worse.

Stewart Lee

#28. Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

James P. Gorman

#29. The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet

Kentaro Yabuki

#30. This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.

Suzanne Finnamore

#31. For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Rumer Godden

#32. If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat ... you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov

#33. I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

George Whitefield

#34. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Eugene Ionesco

#35. A quiet meow echoes on the other side of the door though, and I can't help thinking the cat is calling out for help. I left Avery here in the slums and someone murdered her in the middle of the night. The cat is calling out for me to help his poor dead owner.

Izzy Sweet

#36. Hello Huckleberry!"
"Hello, yourself, and see how you like it."
"What's that you got?"
"Dead cat."
"Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's pretty stiff. Where'd you get him?"
"Bought him off'n a boy.

Mark Twain

#37. He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me.
"You and I need to talk, Kitten."
"Now?" I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet.
"It's not like he's going anywhere, so yeah. Now.

Jeaniene Frost

#38. Keith much preferred cats. A cat wouldn't go mad at a man traversing a wall in the dead of night; it would shrug and lick its arse

Simon Dunn

#39. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

James P. Gorman