Trained Dog Quotes

#1. Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the perform-ance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

Jean Cocteau

#2. He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

George Saunders

#3. One trained dog equals 60 search-and-rescue workers.

Charles Stoehr

#4. Mmmm,' hummed Mum. 'What's it called?'
'Butch,' Dad told her.
'Butch!' Mum repeated. 'It doesn't sound like a small, docile, house-trained dog to me

Gervase Phinn

#5. It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a little bit, improvise a little bit. Sometimes he'd follow me. Especially because of the sausages I had in my pocket.

Jean Dujardin

#6. A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

Elizabeth Goudge

#7. Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?

Suzanne Collins

#8. There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

Donald McCaig

#9. Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

Barry McDonald

#10. The assertion that there are an infinite number of homosexualities is a political statement rather than an observable fact.

Rictor Norton

#11. Experts are just trained dogs.

Albert Einstein

#12. In those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. Privilege: the belief that because a dog has been carefully trained not to bite YOUR ass, that is has no teeth.

Arinn Dembo

#14. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

Sherman Alexie

#15. You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

Chris Waddle

#16. Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

George Carlin

#17. If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that!

Milton Jones

#18. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

William Shakespeare

#19. At about this time the Asiatic wolf, a fierce predator that despite its small size would eat a human if it had the opportunity, came under human control because its friendly young cubs could be fed and trained. A dangerous adversary was turned into a dedicated helper - the dog.

Mark Kurlansky

#20. I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

David Duchovny

#21. I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

Gavin Rossdale

#22. It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

Hayao Miyazaki

#23. The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.

George Carlin

#24. If trained animal professionals with years of dog-handling experience aren't good at visually identifying breeds, then what does that say about the rest of us?

Bronwen Dickey

#25. Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

Corey Ford

#26. I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

Matthew Lillard

#27. Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend.

Nora Roberts

#28. I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

Keith Waterhouse

#29. What I do know is I've got a brain filled with jokes I can't forget - like a tumor the size of a grapefruit inside of my skull. And I know that eventually even dog shit turns white and stops stinking, but I have this permanent head filled with crap I've been trained my whole life to think is funny.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. It's too late Savannah, you already let Carlos grow into a full-grown dog. You should have trained his ass when he was a puppy, when the pussy was still new to him. Now, now he's gonna continue to shit in the house no matter how many times you rub his nose into it.

Fabiola Joseph

#31. He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

Honore De Balzac

#32. He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.

John Steinbeck

#33. Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

Esther Vilar

#34. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Salman Rushdie

#35. While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.

Christie Rampone

#36. I thought your degree was in computronics. It didn't please Judd that there was something he hadn't known about her. An emotional reaction. The sweat rolling down his spine felt like ice this time.

Nalini Singh

#37. We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

John F. Kennedy

#38. And then there's my brother Wally; he's four years younger than me, and he's the classic younger brother
a turd. The Turd is kind of like that old nursery rhyme about snails and puppy dog tails; he's got the intelligence of a slug and he's about as well house-trained as a Chihuahua.

Huston Piner

#39. Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

Richard Yates

#40. Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero!

Maria Montessori