"I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much."
Read quote
3 likes
Cat quotes
Cat
2.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Cat
Browse quotes that often appear alongside cat — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Cat quotes (page 30 of 124)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz."
Read quote
3 likes
"[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated."
Read quote
3 likes
"They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose."
Read quote
3 likes
"We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!"
Read quote
3 likes
"I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!"
Read quote
3 likes
"Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat."
Read quote
3 likes
"With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names."
Read quote
3 likes
"So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG"
Read quote
3 likes
"Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity."
Read quote
3 likes
"Standing, I turned to face my father. “It’s the same as the scent on Moore. It’s definitely a foreign cat, but it’s...more, somehow.” Ethan snickered at my unintentional pun, but I ignored him."
Read quote
3 likes
"A cat’s body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying,” Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. “You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission.” Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute."
Read quote
3 likes
"We would not have hurt the child, even if she is our natural enemy. Nor would we have hurt you, if it could be helped. Finn was killed by a male cat, and in exchange for that information, we also agreed to try to remove the female cats from your encampment before the true melee begins.” Melee?! Were these ninja birds? Green Berets with feathers?"
Read quote
3 likes
"When mice run, cats give chase."
Read quote
3 likes
"Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold"
Read quote
3 likes
"They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails."
Read quote
3 likes
"Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape."
Read quote
3 likes
"The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things."
Read quote
3 likes
"Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity."
Read quote
3 likes