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Quotes About Cats

Already on course for the door, I made no attempt to detour in their direction, and this must have occurred to them only when I was halfway across the hall. Two of them drifted over to intercept me with the easy calm of big cats that have been fed recently.
~ Richard K. Morgan
All that bothered him was the barking of dogs; that insistent, hysterical sound cut right across the music he heard in his head. That was why he preferred cats to dogs. Cats were always happy to let him compose.
~ Julian Barnes
All of my books are made of sweat, blood, laughter, cat hair, chocolate and inspiration.
~ Julie Anne Long
I'm not sure," Callie said. "As you know, cats choose not to talk because they're afraid we'll make them pay taxes.
~ Karin Slaughter
The cats are murdering sleep, the wall rumbling with their engine purrs -prut prut prut as they snore their way to oblivion.
~ Kate Atkinson
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
~ Agnes Repplier
I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"
~ Jackie Chan
I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.
~ Haruki Murakami
I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
~ Vanna White
It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
~ Paula Poundstone
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~ Terry Pratchett
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.
~ Richard Mabey, Nature Cure
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
~ Billy Corgan
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.
~ Wil McCarthy
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.
~ Mary Bly
Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.
~ T. S. Eliot
Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.
~ Donna Andrews
De liefde tot katten is zo mooi, doordat het eigenlijk een ongelukkige liefde is. Wie durft uit het diepst van zijn gemoed te verklaren dat zijn kat hem bemint? Ik denk dat katten vooral tot liefdesobject worden uitgekozen door hen die een afkeer hebben van allemansvriendinnen.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
He also used to oblige them to wear long leather drawers, filled with live cats.
~ William Dalrymple
Though a cat person's love for their pet is no less powerful, cat people tend to keep their relationships private and privileged. Cat people prefer a more intimate and confidential relationship. Cat people live their lives quietly and close to the vest. Cat people share books. Dog people share holidays.
~ William J. Thomas