Showing posts with label Quote findings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quote findings. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Quote Findings - Cats & Dogs

But first...

"I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult.  It's not.  Mine had me trained in two days" - Bill Dana

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges.  Cats have the courage to live by them" - Jim Davis

"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings" - Oliver Herford

"If a dog jumps onto you lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer" - Alfred North Whitehead

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind" - Cleveland Amory

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul" - Jean Cocteau

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If a dog will no come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home  and examine you conscience" - Woodrow Wilson

"Time spent with cats is never wasted" - Sigmund Freud

"a happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats" - Mason Cooley

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole" - Roger Caras

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want" - Joseph Wood Krutch

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Quote Findings - Art

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal" - Igor Stravinsky

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are.  If he did, he would cease to be an artist" - Oscar Wilde

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable" - George Bernard Shaw

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle" - Michelangelo

"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered" - Al Capp

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything" - Gustave Flaubert

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning" - Andy Worhol

"Lying in a bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one has a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it" - Paul Valery

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it" - George Edward Moore

Monday, January 21, 2013

Quote Findings

The following quotes are meant to be bumper stickers on cars, I found them on this website...
http://metapot.com/home.php?cat=50

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it"

"It takes a viking to raze a village"

"Auntie Em: hate you, hate Kansas, taking the dog - Dorothy" 

"Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car"

"Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult"

"Come to the darkside...we have cookies"

"Cover me, I'm changing lanes"

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup"

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Quote Findings

"Really, Officer, I know that's a rocket launcher in my trunk, but I'm only holding it so that someone bad won't use it. Really. Honest"

- Harry Dresden (from the book Cold Days by Jim Butcher)

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Quote Findings

"One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool."

- Harry Dresden (from Jim Butcher's book Cold Days)

Friday, December 28, 2012

Quote Findings

"Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land"

- Harry Dresden (from Jim Butcher's book Cold Days)


Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Quote Findings

"Puff yourself with honor and pride and no one can save you from a fall" - Living the Wisdom of the Tao (Book)

"If you need rules to be kind and just, if you act virtuous, this is a sure sign that virtue is absent.  Thus we see the great hypocrisy" - same as above

"An Army that cannot yield will be defeated.  A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind" - see above

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