Shaggy Dog Quotes

#1. What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Edward Abbey

#3. There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

Tommy Rettig

#4. Could I - could I say good-bye to him, sir? asked Hagrid. He bent his great, shaggy head over Harry and gave him what must have been a very scratchy, whiskery kiss. Then, suddenly, Hagrid let out a howl like a wounded dog.

J.K. Rowling

#5. We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Nikki Giovanni

#6. I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good.

Steve McQueen

#7. And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.

Christina Baker Kline

#8. Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Honore De Balzac

#9. Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

Robert Herrick

#10. If a girl wears a shirt and a skirt, does she become more sensuous? I think a girl in a sari is more sensuous than a girl in a skirt. In my opinion, a wet sari is the most sensuous.

Bipasha Basu

#11. 'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.

Robert Downey Jr.

#12. The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

Christopher Marlowe

#13. I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

David Antin

#14. Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'

Kate Mara

#15. Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are 'shaggy dog' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

W. H. Auden

#16. I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.

Carmine Gallo

#17. The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

Jacques Barzun

#18. He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end.

Elizabeth Jones

#19. Communication with another person
wasn't it the realest thing in life?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#20. He had a shaggy black dog whom he called Syntax.

Anton Chekhov

#21. May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

Marquis De Lafayette

#22. Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

N.D. Wilson

#23. He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob.

Janet Evanovich

#24. I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.

Mary Kay Zuravleff