Quotes About Herding Cats

#1. Making movies is like herding cats.

Eric Fellner

#2. 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

#3. [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

#4. 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

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

Lisa Wingate

#6. herding cats and shoveling smoke.

Eric Metaxas

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

Neil Gaiman

#8. 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

#9. Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

Al Sharpton

#10. 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

#11. The major way that society has come to agree on the rules of property is through the growth of common law, though more recently legislation has played an increasing role.

Milton Friedman

#12. What brings the whole back row of the chessboard to my modest little abode?

Taylor Anderson

#13. I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not ... for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.

Salman Al-Ouda

#15. Of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended.

Albert Einstein

#16. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

#17. 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

#18. We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Frank Pierson

#19. 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