My Dog Quotes

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this."

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.

I don't want any dog to be put down.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend

In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.

In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.

There's so much we can learn from dogs to become better humans.

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store.

He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.

Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.

No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.

I'm not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person."

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

Curiosity fed the dog.

My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person.

Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.

The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.

And that is why I hate dogs." " . . . woof." --Sebastian and Ceiel

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.

I've always loved dogs. I grew up with them and I love working with them. They're really fun.