Cat Quotes
How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.
If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.
That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.
The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.
We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.
You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.
Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.
My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.
A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.
Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.