Sayings About A Pet

#1. Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.

Lemony Snicket

#2. I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Art Alexakis

#3. Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.

Jim Butcher

#4. He smiled like a cat who'd just eaten a pet shop full of canaries,

C.D. Reiss

#5. Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.

Cassandra Clare

#6. There are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet
it's the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering companionship, and many of us have seen the way a pet can make a family feel whole.

Nick Trout

#7. At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.

Aleksandar Hemon

#8. Why don't you like to be gentle? Did you never have a pet to learn how to be nice? I can teach you to be gentle. It's not hard.

Pepper Winters

#9. So this was what having friends involved. Maybe I should just get a pet rock or something. A plant, maybe. Anything incapable of answering back. Once

Kylie Scott

#10. Allie-Cat? Oh help me Rhonda. He's given me a pet name.

Elle Kennedy

#11. When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

Benicio Del Toro

#12. I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. I want to know:
Why is a horse noble and the dove beloved
but no one keeps a pet vulture in a gilded cage.
Why is the humble clover trodden upon rather than the red tulip.
I want to see anew and wash the words of the world
in wind and rain.

Sohrab Sepehri

#14. Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

Jeanette Winterson

#15. I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

Chris Pratt

#16. Why aren't we moving?" Tucker swings his bloodshot eyes toward the backseat. "We have a baby in this truck, Sabrina." "I know." He swallows hard. "This is fucked up. We shouldn't be allowed to leave the hospital with a kid. I've never even had a pet before.

Elle Kennedy

#17. We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

Dick Van Patten

#18. Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.

Marie Lu

#19. I have to tell him that the sheep we're looking for is a woman who runs a pet store," Creek said. "I think telling him his younger brother's been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much for one day." Archie

John Scalzi

#20. There is an affinity between falling asleep and dying that cannot be ignored. In fact, the word sleep is commonly used as a euphemism for "death"; we speak of putting a pet to sleep, rather than admitting we have asked a veterinarian to (kindly) kill him or her.

Anonymous

#21. A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

A.A. Milne

#22. Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

Christopher Paul Curtis

#23. I'm not sure I'm the marrying kind. I don't even know if I want kids. I'm still at the keeping-a-plant alive stage of my life. Next, I'll consider getting a pet.

Susan Mallery

#24. In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar.

Margaret Atwood

#25. Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

Connie Brockway

#26. Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

Joel Hodgson

#27. We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act ... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

Theresa May

#28. Just know this isn't going to be easy. I'm not always going to agree with whatever you want." "If I wanted agreeable, I'd get a pet.

Milly Taiden

#29. A being of light for a pet wouldn't be furry, but it would keep you warm - and awake at night.

Jarod Kintz

#30. But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It's a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

Elizabeth Goudge

#31. Now I felt exposed, on display like a puppy in a pet store window, strip steak in a butcher case, burglar caught in a flashlight beam, in a word, naked.

Dennis Vickers

#32. My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

Elizabeth Holmes

#33. I never met a pet I didn't like.

Andy Warhol

#34. We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

Sara Zarr

#35. He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.

Thomm Quackenbush

#36. Maybe I'll keep you." Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis's back with his sword. "It'd be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks."
"I have a trick for you," said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.

Eoin Colfer

#37. Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Jerry Spinelli

#38. To give away flowers you have to literally cut off their life supply: 'Here you go, it's pretty now but it's rapidly dying and will decompose before your eyes.' It's like giving someone a pet fish without the bowl.

Jules Cassard

#39. I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

Kirsty Gallacher

#40. If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.

Tim Burton

#41. Everyone has a golden. It could be anything - a song, a book, a pet, a person. Anything that makes you so happy your insides cry of pure joy. It feels like you're on drugs but better because it's a natural high. Shakespeare is my golden.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#42. To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Ralph Boston

#43. Emma had honest-to-God fantasies about stopping by a pet store and getting a cat. Emma was allergic to cats. That's how bad things were.

Anonymous

#44. He's not a pet. He's an accident victim.

H.M. Ward

#45. I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon

#46. If you think about the times in life when you've been the most deeply fulfilled, they're the times that you've felt love. Whether it's watching a sunset, spending time with a pet or being with a partner with whom you feel an intensely deep connection.

Marci Shimoff

#47. Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.

Emmy Rossum

#48. When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!

David Letterman

#49. I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

Katie Holmes

#50. A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!

Henny Youngman

#51. I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

Timothy Simons

#52. I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal.

Robert Crais

#53. I don't understand people who don't touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.

Jarod Kintz

#54. When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

Jack Horner

#55. So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is."

Tim Vine

#56. It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Konrad Lorenz

#57. First, love comes in all different sizes, shapes, and colors. And can't nobody tell you that however and whichever way you choose to love is wrong. Unless it's with kin or a pet, I seen somethin' like that once and it was just fuckin' gross.

Cordelia Michelsen

#58. It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.

Rachel Sklar

#59. Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

Gelett Burgess

#60. 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

#61. And why exactly do you have a pet name for me that refers to a big, round space crater?

Quinn Loftis

#62. You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Cassandra Clare

#63. When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing.

Hugh Hefner

#64. If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Michael Nutter

#65. I made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.

Shel Silverstein

#66. It's not that much and everyone needs a pet turtle.

J. Lynn

#67. How into you do you think I am?"
"Honey, you crawled around on all fours in a pet store, totally unable to cope with bein' in my space. You're seriously into me.

Kristen Ashley

#68. Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Carol Anshaw

#69. If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

Jo Brand

#70. It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Alexander Theroux

#71. I really want a pet, and I really love animals.

Aurora Aksnes

#72. I could never date a guy with a pet snake.

Genesis Rodriguez

#73. You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.

Kevin Brockmeier

#74. Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

Killa Kyleon

#75. Holy hell! Is that real or a pet sea serpent that he just so happens to let sleep in his pants?

K.M. Golland

#76. What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent ... Apparently he also has a pet cougar.

Stacy Mantle

#77. I had a pet raccoon that took my tooth brush once,
But only to another room.

Rod McKuen

#78. People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

Patti Scialfa

#79. Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

Richard Ayoade

#80. Having both a pet and a book ... absolute heaven.

Mark Rubinstein

#81. A lie is like a pet- you have to take care of it, or it'll turn on you and bite you in the ass.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#82. If my landlord hadn't been so vehement about the no-pets clause in my lease, I probably would already have at least two cats roaming my apartment. I was considering taking up knitting. Well, no, not the last one, but I did miss having a pet. And the dating situation was becoming dire.

Debra Dunbar

#83. I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

Sarah J. Maas

#84. I'm a fan of the old 'Creature Features' like 'Critters,' and 'Gremlins' and 'Tremors.' 'Jaws' is classic. It's funny that I still like those films because I remember my mom would tease me about getting a pet Critter to keep under my bed.

Brooke Nevin

#85. Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

Adam Fletcher

#86. I don't think I've ever met a girl with a bazooka for a pet." Hunter looked both amazed and slightly frightened.
"That's Kitty," I said, pointing to the large weapon. "I got her for my tenth birthday.

Ada Adams

#87. I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

Karl Pilkington

#88. No matter what happens, please remember that I love you, hridaya patni. Promise me that you'll remember."
"It's a pet name our father used to call our mother. It means ... wife of my heart.

Colleen Houck

#89. I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

Chris Pratt

#90. Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Frederick Pollock

#91. Jace shook his blond head in exasperation.
You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

Cassandra Clare

#92. I'm not a pet, and I don't need anybody's seed.

Jamie Le Fay

#93. Who the hell needs this many dogs anyway?" "What's wrong with being a pet owner?" Cameron asked. "Yeah, you pronounced 'hoarder' wrong.

Abigail Roux

#94. Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog

Estella M. Chung

#95. Bloody Bears, don't bother getting one as a pet, they're too demanding and they shed everywhere.

Gillibran Brown

#96. Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

Robert Breault

#97. It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

Nick Kroll

#98. Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

Lemony Snicket

#99. I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

Kristin Davis

#100. I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

Isabel Lucas