Ratbag Quotes

#1. It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

C.S. Lewis

#3. My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction.

"Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.

Mina Loy

#4. Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Arlen Specter

#5. Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Djuna Barnes

#6. I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.

Claes Oldenburg

#7. It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn BlackBerry.

Merlin Mann