Quotes by Cat If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark. Byron Katie cat trying reality Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark. Byron Katie cat acceptance reality Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat. Byron Nelson cat golf sports Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! C. J. Cherryh cat curiosity ignorance Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go. C. L. R. James cat running art Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable. C. S. Lewis cat dog animal The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it. C. S. Lewis cat fire doe Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat. C. S. Lewis cat might men Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs. C. S. Lewis affection cat dog Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. Camille Paglia naked cat self Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it Camille Paglia cat self animal Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head. Camille Paglia film cat life-is I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way. Carl Perkins rocks cat book If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival. Carl Sagan cat survival tools The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor Carl Sandburg cat nature moving The fog comes on little cat feet. Carl Sandburg fog cat feet As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. Carl Van Vechten cat inspiration writing The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. Carl Van Vechten cat remember men The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. Carl Van Vechten cat imagination people One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. Carl Van Vechten cat greek art «1011121314151617181920»