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"Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain."
"The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice."
"It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom."
"The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough."
"Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?"
"The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind."
"I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up."
"Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself."
"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!"
"Cats know not how to pardon."
"I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband."
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth."
"The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied."
"If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love."
"I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face."
"The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you."
"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."
"Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'"
"I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other."
"I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown."
