Rat Quotes

#1. A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it's gold pieces be worth that much.

Newton Gatambia

#2. When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

Mike Dirnt

#3. Talkin' like dogs fightin'," he explained. "Grrrr! Wuff!" He growled, shaking his head in illustration like a dog worrying a rat, and I saw Fergus's shoulders shake in suppressed hilarity. "Scots for sure," I said, trying not to laugh.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. Also, for the record, only one of us has actually been a rat - and you'll note he's not the one crying.

Cassandra Clare

#5. He can kick as hard as he wants but he cannot destroy what is inside. I have a strong spirit and the Rat will never take that away from me, no matter what he does.
-Matt

Kathryn Erskine

#6. Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Terry Pratchett

#7. No. You don't get to call me Izzy, you don't send me letters, you don't follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats."
"Trust me, we see a rat, it's every man for himself.

Cassandra Clare

#8. [There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people. Meryl Streep is amazing at it.

Michelle Rodriguez

#9. She called me a rat.' 'Oh yes, I gathered you two were very close!

Lindsey Davis

#10. My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.

Irwin Rose

#11. Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself,

Kenneth Grahame

#12. Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)

Rick Riordan

#13. I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

Nancy Farmer

#14. A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

Jimmy Reid

#15. It's easy for men to be friends as close as brothers when they're poor and struggling, but much harder when things are going well. Friends are never as close as blood. Remember that, Rat.

Ken Liu

#16. Huh. Tastes like rat squeezins' with too much honey.

T. Kingfisher

#17. Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.

Kate Elliott

#18. I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

Harry Anderson

#19. I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.

John Larroquette

#20. The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn't be having this conversation, said Ripred.

Suzanne Collins

#21. It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs.

Michael Jensen

#22. But to a dog, the stench of a decaying rat probably smells like Chanel No. 5.

Stephen King

#23. It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

Samantha Bee

#24. But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality

Alfred North Whitehead

#25. We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it

Adriano Bulla

#26. Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth
an icy, windswept rat maze where kids wasted their youth clawing over one another in a fatuous contest for credentials.

Geraldine Brooks

#27. Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

Rob Sheffield

#28. What if the rat returns? I donna think ye'd want to be lying flat on the pallet if he does."
She swatted at him. "That's why I have you and my dagger to protect me."
"Me, aye. Your dagger, nae so much.

Victoria Roberts

#29. Whatever the hell was going on with this guy, he reminded Harley of a rat. Harley hated rats. It made him want to whack the dude in the face with a bat.

Amy Cook

#30. I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

Emile Hirsch

#31. What is that?" I ask.

"It's my dog."

"No. No, I have dogs. Dogs are descended from wolves. That's descended from a rat." I look again. "An ugly rat.

Emma Chase

#32. Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

Ingrid Newkirk

#33. Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow.

J.K. Rowling

#34. I apologize for my sister, Hafell," he said quickly. "She is overwrought from events of the past few days." Nori kicked his foot, but he didn't turn a hair as he finished smoothly, "I believe she meant to say that she was a stubborn, shortsighted, small-minded, Randonnen mountain rat.

Tara K. Harper

#35. Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.

David Letterman

#36. It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Lorna Luft

#37. Even the kits were affected, boldly playing at rat attacks during the day, but scurrying back to the nursery at any unexpected noise. But

Erin Hunter

#38. Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else - Satan has us just where he wants us.

Hugh Nibley

#39. Now and again we vary the route; there's nothing against it, as long as we stay within the barriers. A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, so as long as it stays inside the maze.

Margaret Atwood

#40. I guess all I can do is ignore her. If that fails, I have rat poison and a shovel.

Suzanne Wright

#41. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

Charles Darwin

#42. She's a fucking rat trying to humiliate a queen...She's nothing

Cora Reilly

#43. How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

Ernest Bramah

#44. Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

Bruce Sterling

#45. Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#46. I especially like Ron. Sometimes you feel so sorry for him because he's always getting stuff from his brothers. And he's got a fat, lazy rat.

Rupert Grint

#47. He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always love her even though Thelma didn't give a rat's ass about him and never had.

Nora Ephron

#48. 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

#49. You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#50. There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

Johnny Weir

#51. From Doc Dom, the thriller that I'm currently working on. Hernando Suarez to one of his henchmen who had just betrayed him.

"Where there is garbage, there's a rat.

Christopher Bowron

#52. The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#53. Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

Johann Lamont

#54. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

Anne Stuart

#55. People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

Paul Palmer

#56. I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Alan Alda

#57. Your balls + my gun, you rat bastard.

Dianne Sylvan

#58. I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood.

Maria V. Snyder

#59. Go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. If you want to party, go get an MBA. The Rat

Charles Cooper

#60. History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

James Howard Kunstler

#61. When I was young I had this blonde haircut that was shaved on one side with a rat tail and tram lines in it, but I don't really regret that. It was really elaborate but I was 12 and it looked cool. It was like what people in Iceland do.

Kemp Muhl

#62. Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear.

Chloe Thurlow

#63. From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.

Haruki Murakami

#64. I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.

Michael Cohl

#65. I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#66. I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I'm not a rat anymore. I'm the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going.

Victoria Aveyard

#67. The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

Amy Grant

#68. It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat."
"Did she just call you tree rat?

Shannon Hale

#69. Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet?
Why did Judas rat to the Romans while Jesus slept?

Ghostface Killah

#70. I arrived here a King's Hand, riding through the gates at the head of my own sworn men, Tyrion reflected, and I leave like a rat scuttling through the dark, holding hands with a spider.

George R R Martin

#71. One day I'll sneak a few drops of rat poison into that seed you love so much.

Eve Yohalem

#72. I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.

Anthony Evans

#73. Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

John Ortberg Jr.

#74. They served "Good Food" but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?

Julie Kenner

#75. The rat gave birth. Six little ones ... cute baby rats ... None of them are like Hitler.

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

#76. When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Kenneth Grahame

#77. Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough

Haruki Murakami

#78. I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

Donald Freed

#79. Did you bring me a rat?"
"He has no time for rats, George."
"No time for rats? That's just sad.

Rick Riordan

#80. Disengaging from the rat race Jackson

Kate Atkinson

#81. The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

Ray Liotta

#82. I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

Aprilynne Pike

#83. I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.

Michael Chabon

#84. The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

Daniel Berrigan

#85. Sometimes it's good to be the smartest rat in the sewer.

Michael Houbrick

#86. A rat is more alive than a turtle.
A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin

Leonard Cohen

#87. I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

Dane Cook

#88. You dirty, double-crossing rat.

James Cagney

#89. It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.

Lenny Kravitz

#90. All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

Maynard James Keenan

#91. I should love a dear little blind rat,' said Wendy, and added in a contemplative voice: 'I sometimes wish I were blind you know, so that I needn't see my tooth water after I've spat it.

Nancy Mitford

#92. As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.

John Cole

#93. Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

Drew Carey

#94. I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

Tom Waits

#95. Hm," said the witch, picking up Scabbers. "How old is this rat?" "Dunno," said

J.K. Rowling

#96. I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music.

Ella Henderson

#97. Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

Suzanne Collins

#98. I'm going to say 'Amen' now. This is a deal now. We are square on this. You will sort this out. Violet will not rat on us. Amen.

Caitlin Moran

#99. All it takes is for me to be seen chatting up a girl for [tabloids] to, you know, make up some crappy headline about me being a sex rat or whatever they call it.

Daniel Radcliffe

#100. Imagine that being your job, huh, baby rat merchant?

Sarah Lotz