Top 100 Quotes About Mouse
#1. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
William Steig
#2. Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God."
T. Kingfisher
#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
#5. In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. I miss my dog."
...
"What was his name again?"
"Mouse."
"That was very unkind of you."
"Naming him mouse?"
"Isn't he a greyhound?"
"I could have named hum Turtle."
"Frederick!" ...
"It's better than Frederic," Annabel said, "Good heavens, that's my brother's name.
Julia Quinn
#8. Good Lord," he muttered "They pick a mouse to tame a cat.
Hannah Kent
#9. Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
Bill Murray
#10. For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.
Matt Nagle
#11. We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.
Russ Carnahan
#12. Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.
Joel Silver
#13. Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't recall life as it was. Instead, we remember what was different, frightening, or strange, and we turn our lives into the fun-house mirror images of the truth.
Jamie Kain
#14. A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well.
Michael Pollan
#15. Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
E.B. White
#16. I was in heaven, I was in hell, Believe in neither, But fear them as well.
Modest Mouse
#17. The Road
Life isn't a destination
It's a journey.
But you gotta be heading somewhere
or you're just a mouse
going round.
Even if
the place you wind up
isn't the place
you where bound
Carolee Dean
#18. And finally i prayed for the mouse-I prayed that he didn't get hurt when he went flying out the door of the open arms baptist church of naomi. I prayed that he landed on a nice patch of grass.
Kate DiCamillo
#19. Running the race
Like a mouse in a cage
Getting nowhere but I'm trying
Forging ahead
But I'm stuck in the bed
That I made so I'm lying
A Fine Frenzy
#20. Whose mouse are you?"
Nobody's mouse.
"Where is your mother?"
Inside a cat.
"Where is your father?"
Caught in a trap.
Robert Kraus
#21. pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: 'Did you speak?' 'Not I!' said the Lory
Lewis Carroll
#22. It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
John Heywood
#23. Back a mouse into a corner and he'll attack a lion.
Manel Loureiro
#24. I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.
Vikram Seth
#25. Unless you're under 12 or into role playing, you shouldn't be wearing Mickey Mouse ears #AHOLE
A.O. Storm
#26. You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked]
"Yeah."
"Why?" he asked.
The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow.
Rachel Vail
#27. Why would you save me?
Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'
- A Tale of Despereaux, Kate Dicamillo - P. 81
Kate DiCamillo
#28. Check out the mouse on your computer the 2 button can be used as a "1" and as a "2" button which will mean it can do the both actions, so why do we have "1" and "2" as a buttons on the mouse??
Deyth Banger
#29. tall buildings and clustered streets of the city had her trapped like a mouse in a maze, without even the possible reward of cheese.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#30. The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse.
Elliot Perlman
#31. Raisins again. I like raisins, but I have a habit of losing one or two on the floor every time I eat them. I always find them later and think they are: a) a mouse turd or b) a cockroach. Then I figure out it's a raisin and sigh with relief. This pretty much happens every time I find a lost raisin.
Julie Halpern
#32. I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I was a wolf.
Sarah J. Maas
#33. Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan
#34. Mouse likes to drag you to uninhabited areas with no cell signal - all those places perfect for dying of exposure.
Elle Lothlorien
#35. Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither
Mike Murdock
#36. The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path - any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.
Robert Greene
#37. A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.
Lamar S. Smith
#38. Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.
Colin Cotterill
#39. Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld
#40. There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it's not really a human sound.
Teddy Thompson
#41. Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#43. Uncle Vernon made another funny noise, like a mouse being trodden on.
J.K. Rowling
#44. If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James D. Carswell
#46. Even though everything today is available at a click of a mouse still, the smell of a book and its feel makes the experience of reading very special and personal. It is more tangible and I urge all youngsters to read a lot as it will also broaden their horizons.
Shallu Jindal
#47. The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell
#48. This cat-and-mouse could not last forever, and he also knew that when you are the mouse you don't have much to say about it to the cat.
Robert Olmstead
#49. Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road.
Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass
John Ringo
#50. Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it's hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse.
Elly Griffiths
#51. When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.
Walt Disney
#52. The guy has to kill the spider and get the dead mouse outta the pool.
Leah Remini
#53. On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather, his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm, fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.
Mindy Kaling
#54. Since when do politics affect a mammals ability to sustain a flame? That aside, who says a burning mouse can't run a distance of twelve feet?
David Sedaris
#56. You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.
Audrey Niffenegger
#57. I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.
Greg Cipes
#58. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
Danger Mouse
#59. A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do
Avi
#60. An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.
W. H. Auden
#61. The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.
Steven Millhauser
#62. She sat there majestic in her armchair, filling every inch of it. Not even a mouse could have squeezed in to sit beside her.
Roald Dahl
#63. But the mind, or the heart, she didn't know which one it was, but it was slower these days, not catching up, and she felt like a big, fat field mouse scrambling to get up on a ball that was right in front of her turning faster and faster, and she couldn't get her scratchy frantic limbs up onto it.
Elizabeth Strout
#64. The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.
Modest Mouse
#65. Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!
Robin Williams
#66. Actually, there are," she'd said. "Want to see who can make the most inappropriate picture out of
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?"
So they'd done that. She hadn't realized how ... creative a bunch of teen boys could get. But at
least it had cut through some of their tension.
Brigid Kemmerer
#67. Everyone has left me
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse.
Anne Sexton
#68. (Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)
E.B. White
#69. May it please your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.
C.S. Lewis
#70. In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.
Danger Mouse
#71. Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?
C. G. Jung
#72. An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#73. There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.
Michael Morpurgo
#74. He and Sully dared each other to go on the Wild Mouse and finally went together, howling deliriously as their car plunged into each dip, simultaneously sure that they were going to live forever and die immediately.
Stephen King
#75. Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.
Helen Kieran Reilly
#76. Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus
#77. That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
Austin O'Malley
#78. The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
George Herbert
#79. The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.
John Muir
#80. The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.
Fritz Leiber
#81. I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.
Jef Raskin
#82. And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
Ezra Pound
#83. The mouse ran up her arm, and Martier screamed again and shook it loose until it landed on the floor.
Pepper Pace
#84. Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.
Lynda Resnick
#85. I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.
Danger Mouse
#86. I suppose cats have sayings like ... "A dead mouse ... has no entertainment value." How's that? Doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it? Okay, how about ... "Red sky at night, time for a nap ... red sky in the morning ... time for a nap.
Dave McKean
#87. When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
Danger Mouse
#88. Lock it away," the half-man whispered. "You feel, after. Not now. Now you are a soldier. Now you do your duty for your pack. If you break, your Mouse will die, and you with him. Feel, after. Not now.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#89. It was a denim jacket. With this cover in place, Mouse hastily got his pants back in order. Instead of a teacher, as he'd expected, the new kid, Beckett Taylor, had bestowed dignity upon him.
Debra Anastasia
#90. Other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard.
John Boyne
#91. A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.
Michael Dickinson
#92. 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
#93. Tell me this
if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life
if you knew you'd never have a line published
would you still go on writing
would you?'
'Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write
I can't help it at times
I've just got to.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
Danger Mouse
#95. America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
Eric Braeden
#96. I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
Vince Clarke
#97. There once was a little mouse. He was a very clever little mouse. He lived in the walls of a house with
Paul Ramage
#98. The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
Douglas Feith
#99. Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.
Richey Edwards
#100. Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
William Golding
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