Rat Quotes

#1. A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly

Sunday Adelaja

#2. Good morning, Si! I saw a rat in the bathroom, but he was taking a nice nap and we didn't bother each other.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Women don't have a say in my house. But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#4. It's a corporate truth universally acknowledged that workers would rather eat rat skeletons than participate in group activities.

Sally Thorne

#5. One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?

Robert M. Price

#6. You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest!

Diana Gabaldon

#7. The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.

George R R Martin

#8. Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat

Niall Ferguson

#9. If you would know my path and follow in its way, then know the land about, both track and willage, in its bridge and in its drownings. Know the outcast rat-shacks, relic stones and gill-halls. Mark each path above and know the underpath below, its secret way from vault to treasure hole.' My

Alan Moore

#10. What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forever.

Faith Erin Hicks

#11. One of my favourite sorts of actors ... the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

Joss Whedon

#12. At last they heard the sound of slow shuffling footsteps approaching the door from the inside. It seemed, as the Mole remarked to the Rat, like some one walking in carpet slippers that were too large for him and down at heel; which was intelligent of Mole, because that was exactly what it was.

Kenneth Grahame

#13. If you join the rat race - you're in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

#14. Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge.

Patricia Highsmith

#15. I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Joseph Barbera

#16. You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

Kevin Costner

#17. Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

James Darren

#18. Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.

Tony Bennett

#19. Rat #1 got you through the gates, didn't it?" said Anadil, stroking the still-pooped pet in her pocket. "Rat #2 gets you to the tower."
"And Rat #3 negotiates world peace?

Soman Chainani

#20. The Devil is like a rat in a jar that is filling with ether. We should expect that as his death gets ever-nearer, he will beat his claws more furiously against the glass.

Jared C. Wilson

#21. By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

#22. I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

John Cleese

#23. When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

Chael Sonnen

#24. It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Winston Churchill

#25. My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

Beth Ditto

#26. Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?

William Shakespeare

#27. For a moment, upon waking, he had NO idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if he were free to be whatever he wanted to be: he could be anyone at all, able to try on any identity; he could be a man or a woman; a rat or a bird, a monster or a god.

Neil Gaiman

#28. Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley.
Ollie Chandler in Deception

Randy Alcorn

#29. I hope I did not offend Miss Nightingale by complaining about the rat," said the countess. "I like her very much. Miss Nightingale, I mean, not the rat.

Mary Pope Osborne

#30. The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Julian Fellowes

#31. And who came up with the animals for these euphemisms, anyway? Why bat shit? Why not cow shit or grasshopper shit? And why don't we give a rat's ass as opposed to a hamster's ass?

Darynda Jones

#32. We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

Edward Hoagland

#33. What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.

Maya Angelou

#34. The human spirit and self-esteem are compromised when you lay down your arms to the pressures of society in a rat race.

Mayank Sharma

#35. I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?

Fritz Leiber

#36. She pounded a skinny red coffee stirrer against the restaurant table with the rat, tat, tat of a machine gun.

Deanna Chase

#37. Well then, who's ready to burn this shit-stain town to the ground?

Kurtis J. Wiebe

#38. He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.

Larissa Ione

#39. I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.

Louis MacNeice

#40. He's not the only one who's got people to worry about," Rachel said. "I have a family. We
all do."
"Not me," Tobias said softly. He smiled his sad, crooked smile. "It's true. No one gives a rat's
rear about me."
"I do," Rachel said.

K.A. Applegate

#41. I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.

Dick Dale

#42. The terror ran endlessly on in his mind, making him feel like a rat trapped on an exercise wheel. And when he tried to look ahead to some better, brighter time, he could see only darkness.

Stephen King

#43. Later that night I wake up screaming. A rat is at me, biting and biting me, and I cannot move.

Beverly Lowry

#44. The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#45. When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Ingrid Newkirk

#46. To a rat, a small hole is like a door.

Helena

#47. I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Marianne Wiggins

#48. Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Michelle M. Pillow

#49. The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.)

Charles De Leusse

#50. You might be a redneck if your birth announcement included the word rug rat.

Jeff Foxworthy

#51. You know every alley in my mind, every broken bottle and rat scuttling in there.

Joanna Bourne

#52. Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

Linda Ellerbee

#53. I'm conjuring up a little fuck you."
-Hannah Rat Queens Vol 1

Kurtis J. Wiebe

#54. An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

E. O. Wilson

#55. Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.

June Goodfield

#56. Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

Van Morrison

#57. I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water - and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Richelle Mead

#58. Watch the dog! His hands actually hesitated, and I think he realized for the first time that PC was there. The dog's presence seemed to stump him. What, he's never seen a dog in a purse before? That or he thought PC was some sort of hairless rat - that happened.

Kalayna Price

#59. But life without love was like a rat that had been dead for a few days. You could eat it, but it wasn't as delicious.

C. Gockel

#60. Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going' nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.

Kenneth Grahame

#61. He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

Stevie Nicks

#62. I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of ... of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

Lisa Ann Sandell

#63. We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.

Ann Coulter

#64. I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

J.K. Rowling

#65. Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

Robin Williams

#66. England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Hanif Kureishi

#67. I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings.
He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length, like a scullery maid disposing of a dead rat.

Cecilia Grant

#68. It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That

Junot Diaz

#69. If I said Jim Carroll would you be insulted?"
-Jessica Citizen-

David Rat

#70. He was twisted as a pretzel, he was a tinfoil-halo shitnosed frogstomping king rat asshole, but he wasn't stupid.

Margaret Atwood

#71. I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#72. Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

Cinda Williams Chima

#73. I'm a gym rat, I have to admit. I live in the gym, and now that I don't have to get beat up for a living, I can truly enjoy taking care of myself without worrying about breaking my leg or getting paralyzed.

Thomas Jones

#74. He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can.

Eric Spitznagel

#75. This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me,' whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. 'Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely

Kenneth Grahame

#76. I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

Ida B. Wells

#77. Have a chocolate-covered raisin," he said.
"They look like rat droppings," said the Chair.
The Dean peered at them in the gloom.
"So that's it," he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot.

Terry Pratchett

#78. As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.

Lawrence Block

#79. I'm a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It's too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels - the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.

Chila Woychik

#80. The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

Ivan Illich

#81. You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

Jeff Foxworthy

#82. Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick.

Kim Harrison

#83. Whoa," Thomas said, feeling bolder by the minute. "Slim it nice and calm there, old fella. You look three steps away from a heart attack.

James Dashner

#84. I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.

Jonah Hill

#85. In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.

Paul Goodman

#86. In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
When one door is closed, many more is open.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion.

Bob Marley

#87. I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!

Jeremy Irvine

#88. My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

Georges Danton

#89. Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice.

Chila Woychik

#90. My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

Roger Daltrey

#91. You were not bred to avoid trouble," Tobai said. "Your family takes it on, shakes it like a dog shaking a rat, and tosses it to one side.

Elizabeth Moon

#92. For the anthropomorphic view of the rat, American psychology substituted a rattomorphic view of man. - Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

Alfie Kohn

#93. I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.

Kevin Brockmeier

#94. Ask any single parent whether they'd like an extra set of hands around the house and they'd take it." They'd take it if it weren't the set of hands belonging to the rat bastard who asked for a divorce the same day the pregnancy test read positive.

Jennifer Coburn

#95. He was not, by the standard definitions, a bad man; in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not, from a dispassionate point of view, a bad animal.

Terry Pratchett

#96. I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer.

Tim Howard

#97. Rat-a-tat-tat."
"Quack."

Kate Angell

#98. I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you.

R. Kelly

#99. Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Charb

#100. Its mouth was wide and its teeth were wickedly pointed. He managed a brief "Hey!" and jerked away from the window ... just as the rat hit the glass with a furry, wet thump. It slid down to the alley one floor below, where it staggered around in stunned surprise.

Michael Scott