Top Cat Quotes

#1. Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

Charles Bukowski

#2. They'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

Frank Herbert

#3. The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

Dustin Hoffman

#4. Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

Elizabeth Janeway

#5. Laurie picks up a briefcase and places it on the table. He opens the lid and his head disappears under the top. Oh god. Is he about to introduce me to a cat of nine tails, or some bizarre tickling stick? Brace yourself Liz. Cate told you to always carry your pepper spray, you fool.

LeeAnn Whitaker

#6. The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

Rafer Johnson

#7. A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

Ming-Na Wen

#9. The sofa has to go first. We can put that right in the truck to go to the church."
"Is something going on I don't know about? Is the church paying top dollar for old stuff or something?

Cat Johnson

#10. Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.").

Terry Pratchett

#11. After dunking his thoughts in a quick cold shower, he got his mind back on track.

Tracey Alvarez

#12. SHINING is how you become BRIGHTER!

Trilby D. Johnson

#13. It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Henry Lewes

#14. To never become so certain or high that he wasn't willing to seek truth.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Lloyd Alexander

#16. Tucker took off his cowboy hat and laid it on top of the dresser and then crossed the room to close the curtains. The big question of the night was answered - he did take off his hat for sex.

Cat Johnson

#17. You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

Pam Brown

#18. Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.

Max DePree

#19. The three months I'd spend with Eddie had taught me many things, and the top two items were (1) A Cat's Purr Makes Everything Okay and (2) The Cat Always Wins.

Laurie Cass

#20. Another five grand on top of the twenty-five large from Carlisle. I vowed not to tell Kiddiot. Knowing him, he would definitely demand I buy him more cat toys. The

David Freed

#21. Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

Eleanor Farjeon

#22. All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.

Elmer Bernstein

#23. When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.

Debolina

#24. Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag.
Cat re: Annette

Jeaniene Frost

#25. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

#26. If anyone comes, shoot first, ask questions later.

Erin Kellison

#27. I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.

Chelsea Handler

#28. The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

Tamara Mellon