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Quotes About Cat

The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem. This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
From time to time somewhere in the house the lonely Siamese cat erupted in a high-pitched, piteous yowl, a cry of utter desolation and misery that chilled my blood, as if I had been torturing her, and was to blame for her suffering.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Here's Daljit, Aristide's former lady-love: "Do you still have that horrible cat?" "Yes, said Bitsy. "He does." "I didn't know you were here," Daljit said weakly. "I lurk," said the cat. Bitsy is not a cat-like creature to fuck around. Of one of her fellow-AIs, she says: "I'd kick Aloysius' ass. That AI always gets my goat.
~ Walter Jon Williams
He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.
~ Walter Moers
Then he lets out a surprisingly strong mustard-colored meow and settles back into his mother's warmth. Who ever heard of a cat named Mustard? Impossible.
~ Wendy Mass
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story. —JOHN LE CARRÉ
~ Wendy Wax
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
~ Wesley Bates
her little cat voice.
~ Danielle Girard
What's KittyTube?" I asked. "It's our internet channel to show our cat videos. A dozen years ago, a kind inventor gave cats a cat-to-human speech translator. Since then, we've been in control of our videos. We hire human camera operators and film editors and everything else.
~ Darcy Pattison
If routine is the reason I am still alive, my cat is probably the reason I am still single.
~ David Archer
A cat said goodbye by simply sticking its tail in the air and walking away.
~ David Archer
A dog is a companion. A cat no more than an occasional friend who doesn't mind you dropping in from time to time.
~ David Archer
In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I loved her late, I loved her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives, O! by my soul, my honest Mat, I fear she has nine lives.
~ James Boswell
she was the victim of circumstances, and had no choice about becoming a vampire, once the cat had jumped over her coffin. Still, Jurgen always felt, in his illogical masculine way, that her vocation was not nice.
~ James Branch Cabell
She's out, Jim! The bugger's out!" Well this was great. Anybody who has driven a car with a hysterical cat hurtling around the interior will appreciate my situation.
~ James Herriot
Pumpkin-sized hail pelted all around. The roof of the Cat rang with their impacts, denting toward them.
~ James Rollins
The great spy novelist John Le Carré suggested this axiom: The cat sat on the mat is not the beginning of a story. The cat sat on the dog's mat, is.
~ James Scott Bell
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.
~ Doris Lessing
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss.
~ Doris Lessing
Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.' 'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Well, it's no good jumping at conclusions. Jump? You don't even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion. I believe if you caught the cat with her head in the cream-jug you'd say it was conceivable that the jug was empty when she got there.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The glass-blower's cat is bompstable," said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Within, a cheerful bustle in the bar announced the near arrival of opening time. Eight ducks crossed the road in Indian file. A cat sprang up upon the bench, stretched herself, tucked her hind legs under her and coiled her tail tightly round them as though to prevent them from accidentally working loose. A groom passed, riding a tall bay horse and leading a chestnut with a hogged mane; a spaniel followed them, running ridiculously, with one ear flopped inside-out over his foolish head.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers