T Quotes
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“The casual listener won't be around forever.”
“The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.”
“the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.”
“The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.”
“The cat and mouse can live peacefully in one house, but the mouse won't get sound sleep unless mouse trust the cat completely.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“The cat and mouse game is smart, but people want to see fighters who come to win, or do not wait to go to the judges. When the fight goes all the way, they see the spirit of the person that wants to win.”
“The cat-and-mouse scenery is not only about animals, but about our human condition. How do we live, how we are played, and how we might become the cat to another’s mouse? Play and malice, freedom and inescapability, survival and destruction are entwined. The trap is not only external. It is also within us, in the desires that ensnare us, the illusions we follow, and the systems we occupy. ( ‘The Mousetrap”)”
“The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”
“The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.”
“The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.”
Source: Peter the Great: His Life and World
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?”
Source: Coraline
“The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.”
Source: The Fireside Sphinx
“The cat hair floated in the air like a sound vibration, and I plucked it like a guitar string. Sometimes I can be so musical I’m like a living love song.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.”
“The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.”
“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”
Source: The Way to Wealth
“The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.”
“The cat is a dilettante in fur.”
“The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.”
“The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.”
Source: THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_
“The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open...and it's a wild cat.”
“The cat is nature's masterpiece.”
“The cat is out of the bag: The very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea is biologically toxic to the sea level adapted workers. It is time to demolish the Mauna Kea Observatories.”
“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.”
Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_
“The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.”
“The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.”
Source: The Tiger in the House
“The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.”
“The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.”
Source: The soul of a cat: and other stories
“The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.”
Source: Animal Farm
“The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something”
Source: Morning in the Burned House
“The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.”
“The cat lives in pursuit of the mouse;
The tree grows in pursuit of the sun.
Are we the cat or the tree, pursuers?
Are we the wind, born only to run?”
Source: The Poet Empress
“The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, "Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.”
Source: Coraline
“The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.”
“The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!”
Source: The Laughing Muse
“The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.”
Source: The Mummy Case
“The cat's sophisticated personae are masks of an advanced theatricality. Priests and god its own cult, the cat follows a code of ritual purity, cleaning itself religiously. Priest and god of its own cult, the car sacrifices to itself and may share its ceremonies with the elect. [...] The cat is the least Christian inhabitant of the entire home.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.”
“The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.”
“The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...)”
“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”
“The cat uses trees, as stated, as many things but here it would not uncommon to see the oak as the marker, not the stone. Cats would spray the tree, not necessarily the rock.
A rock as a further marker would be a non-essential redundancy that a cat would more or less ignore. It would be like saying one needed to ignore the law of God (written on the stone) to honour their promise to not honour foreign gods. The human reaction of obvious strangeness would begin here. If the tree is seen as an item to climb, the rendition would get more queer to the human interpretation.”
Source: Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“The cat wandered between two women.
In one house, kibble and clear water.
Sometimes, bits of roast chicken, even,
sometimes, translucent fish skin.
That’s the house that first called her
its own and, for all those nights until
she found the other woman, she’d purred
there without asking for anything more.
But, I’ve already told you, she found
the other woman. Whose house held
the wondrous calm of no children. A blessing.
Wet food in the kitchen. Catnip growing
for her in the yard. The women came
to be like sister wives. Accepting, if not
companionable. Opening and offering
everything when the cat came around.”
Source: America, A Love Story
“The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.”
“The cat was still clawing at him, still trying for supremacy, but not in his usual aggressive, out for blood and mayhem, for the taste of human flesh manner. No this time he felt almost playful.
Playful? His Leopard? There was no time;even in childhood, his Leopard had never felt playful.”
Source: Leopard's Wrath
“The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.”
“The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.”
Source: Just So Stories and the Jungle Book