Quotes About A Mouse Trap

#1. For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

William H Gass

#2. The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

David Parnas

#4. I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. There is something very easy about women's friendships that you don't see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say.

Laurie Graham

#6. In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Saki

#7. suffer hunger,' said the Cat. 'You, little Mouse, cannot venture everywhere in case you run at last into a trap.' This good counsel was followed, and a little pot of fat was bought. But they did not know where to put it. At length, after long consultation,

Andrew Lang

#8. Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.

Maury Wills

#9. Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

William Penn

#10. The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.

Marty Rubin

#11. Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

Steve Goodier

#12. You may sell your work, but not your soul.

John Ruskin

#13. Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

Helio Gracie

#14. There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.

Haile Gerima

#15. Do you have a secret life? This is what she asks all her friends.

Jenny Offill

#16. If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!

Patti Digh

#17. But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

William C. Bryant

#18. I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

Joan Crawford

#19. I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.

Pauly Shore

#20. Listen ... You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.

David Gemmell

#21. The sky is as gruff as a Chinese waiter. It keeps slamming the silverware against the horizon.

Tom Robbins

#22. Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

Steven Wright

#23. In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Torsten Wiesel

#24. The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.

Ian Fleming

#25. The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Norman Mailer

#26. Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

Mariella Frostrup

#27. Whose mouse are you?"
Nobody's mouse.
"Where is your mother?"
Inside a cat.
"Where is your father?"
Caught in a trap.

Robert Kraus

#28. Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.

Bill Murray