“They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.” PeopleDogReflectionMirrorsSmellFooled Author:Theodore Sturgeon
“Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.'” PeopleSaidProblemTodayFallWaterWhiteDogDrinkingTexasConsideringToilets Author:Bill Maher
“That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'” PeopleLooksHas BeensRealEyeWishDogJailVoidAlmighty Author:Ernie Banks
“Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.” PeopleIfsHumansCommonDogEvidenceRegardCommon SenseProvenResearchersChihuahua Author:Bill Nye
“What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.” PeopleWritingWellsHas BeensArtHumanityBrainStudyDoubtMediaDogSafeDepthUniversityActressesStuckDialogueNo DoubtProfessorsGiftedGigsPhiladelphiaPancakesWagsWag The DogUniversity ProfessorsCamilleMedia Studies Author:Clive James
“You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people.” PeopleHouseMillionsPlansDogDemandDoctorsIncreaseBlueAddMedicalAdministrationNurseCoveringDoctors And Nurses Author:Dick Morris
“I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning.” PeopleYearsKindChildrenHas BeensGuyMy OwnFourSeeingDogHairMarriedDiedCamerasMakeupFour YearsCrewOld DogHair And MakeupDog Died Author:Julianne Moore
“I get ticked off a lot because I don't think she [Faith Hill] gets the respect she deserves. I tell her all the time, "If you were 300 pounds and dog ugly, people would think you were the greatest singer in the world." They have the tendency to look at her and never really listen to her. The reason it works is she's a fantastic artist. It's almost embarrassing for me to sing with her sometimes.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLooksSometimesReasonArtistDogDeserveUglySingersTendenciesFantasticHillsPoundsEmbarrassingUgly People Author:Tim McGraw
“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingTogetherCoursesCommunityTechnologyCreativeDogDesignBuildingLike YouInternetMachinesBasesDeeperDrivenCodeFreakCapitalistThrust Author:Terence McKenna
“Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers.” PeopleWhiteStreetsDogWindColdBirthWinterWaveStormDietsKicksShoreDragElephantsHumiliationChillShrinksRetiredLapMistSharksSealsTrumpetsParadesSweatersSnacksRutsSurferCrackersLeashesSaltyPupsLap Dogs Author:Christopher Moore
“Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.” PeopleMenRunningDogMen And WomenCatSexualityHeatBundlesOlder PeopleCat And DogOlder Man Author:Jacqueline Bisset
“People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out.” PeopleWantFirstsKidsDogDrunkCompareInsultingHaving Kids Author:Greg Giraldo
“People come to this country from all over the world to pursue their dreams of driving a taxi or selling hot dogs or working in a sweatshop.” PeopleWorldCountryDreamDogHotDrivingSellingPursueTaxiHot DogSweatshops Author:Greg Giraldo
“You know what kills me about Jennifer Lopez? The fact that this woman wakes up one day and she's like, 'You know what? From now on, I'd like people to call me J-Lo,' and then they do it. Only a celebrity can get away with this. George Bush doesn't come out for his morning press conferences: 'From now on, I'd like to be referred to as G-Bu. Y'all know my vice president, Dog Chain.” PeopleKnowsFactsPresidentMorningDogLike YouOne DayWake UpPressesVicesChainsGet AwayCall MeConferencesKill MeVice PresidentJenniferPress Conferences Author:Carol Leifer
“I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.” PeopleSometimesHomeWalksWatchesDogTvsOfficeEuropeSpendingParisBitesMy DogSpending Time Author:Marc Jacobs
“Our dog just wanders around the house with a concerned look on his face. Dogs are just people who can't find their phone.” PeopleLooksFacesHouseDogConcernedPhonesWander Author:Dana Gould
“No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.” PeopleToo MuchDogTrainHandle Author:Cesar Millan
“I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.” PeopleWayMayLongHas BeensDoneFactsAmericaBlackRaceTakenWiseDogHigherLong TimeRedStrongerAgreeFinalsInstanceGradesAustraliaBlack PeopleWorldly Author:Winston Churchill
“Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBookSometimesSpiritualJoyReadingSexStuffSimpleWalksPracticeMeditationDogJoyfulContemplativeOne You LoveHaving SexSomeone You LoveMeditation PracticeSpiritual JoySimple JoysSmall Simple Author:Moby
“Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsFirstsMadeHardFeltMillionsRecordsFeetRocksTalentDogTenMouthsCornersFeel GoodMade ItTunesTallHorizonRock And RollHoundsHound Dogs Author:Stephen King
“I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.” PeopleTryingI CanDifferentWalksDogTypeChaosOrganizeMy ThoughtsMy Dog Author:Amanda Schull
“I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldDifferentRealCharacterStoriesBigsHappensFilmStarsMediaDogEventsFinanceAfternoonMainstreamExplainingUndertakingsJuliaDifferent CharactersDog Days Author:Jodie Foster
“I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.” PeopleYearsTwoLastsGuyFeetCrazyDogWalkingEatingDesertTwo YearsHungShortsBare FeetFours Author:Lykke Li
“Many of us have to spell words such as "out," "cookie," and "bath" when conversing with other people, lest we unnecessarily excite our pets. And even then they often understand. I've actually had clients who resorted to using a second language around their dogs, but after a while their perceptive pooches caught on. Who says dogs don't understand us?” PeopleLanguageDogCaughtCommunicatePetSpellsClientsCookiesBaths Author:Warren Eckstein
“Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.” PeopleKidsUsedFeltWaterAnimalDogDadCreaturesEatingCatTwentiesMy DadFishesFishingVeganPanicCat And Dog Author:Dan Mathews
“When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.” PeopleWorldWayHardWholeHandsThreeAbilityWhiteIssuesFocusMediaDogMissingTvsAdvantagePoliceWhole WorldActivistCastingBullsTanksFragmentedNbcNew Media Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.” PeopleHas BeensMotherAnimalGrowing UpGrowingDogHugeLoversBirdCatCaringAccusedRabbitsAnimal LoveTurtlesAnimal LoverCaring More Author:Amanda Schull
“How do I transform pain. I guess the number one way in which I do that is by working on music, but also it can be anything from just talking about it with other people or doing kickboxing or meditating or running around with dogs. Or just simply trying to sit with it and be mindful and be aware of it.” PeopleWayTryingRunningPainNumbersTalkingDogOne WayMeditatingKickboxing Author:Moby
“People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingMatterMightEyeSongRecordsNiceSeeingInfluenceDogAskingSizeTrackAlbumsVarietyPerformingReally NiceMonochrome Author:Page Hamilton
“David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.” PeopleChildrenLittlesBookDogSunglasses Author:Mara Wilson
“It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.” PeopleHumansMadeBookStoriesLastsBlackMemoriesEffortWonderfulDogTaughtRacismHollywoodTrainCloudsWoundsRidiculousAbsurdThemeBlack PeopleControversySad ThingsHollywood MoviesWonderful Experience Author:Curtis Hanson
“Just think about that. I feed 7 people every day. I house, feed and clothe seven people every day. And we have employees at the house. And we have 3 dogs, so I'm just throwing money out.” PeopleThinkingHouseDogSevenEmployeeThrowing Author:David Koechner
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.” PeopleIfsFatherWifeDogHabitCommitmentMy WifeBlanketPuppySlanderSaying Thank YouPuppy DogHeidi Author:Ted Cruz
“I want people to understand there is a such a thing as creating a harmonious experience between the dogs and the humans.” PeopleWantHumansDogCreatingHarmonious Author:Cesar Millan
“With small dogs people don't reinforce the same behavior that they do on a larger dog. If you are a driver no matter what size car you have it doesn't matter. Same thing goes for any gender. All the rules are the same.” PeopleIfsMatterDogCarBehaviorNo Matter WhatSizeGenderDriversSmall Dogs Author:Cesar Millan
“People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.” PeopleTryingStrongDogDangerousIgnorantAggressiveDog Love Author:Cesar Millan
“It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in movies. Hopefully when people think about the movie when they go home, they're like, "That's weird. He's maybe crazy. He's talking to a dog the whole time."” PeopleThinkingLongWholeHomeTalkingViolenceCrazyDogHopefullyValleysBeing CrazyMonologues Author:Ti West
“You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsKnow HowDogCatWants To Be Alone Author:Dar Williams
“The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.” PeopleKnowsHeartBookStoriesShowsFormAbilityGraceDogFrontsCrossesRedemptionThemeMice Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!” PeopleKnowsChildrenKidsThreeRoomsWifeDogPetPriusThree Dog Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see people dress like that and take on the look.” PeopleLooksSaidCultureDogInvolvedDressesGangFlatteringBlindersSnoop Dog Author:Steven Knight
“The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.” PeopleMenMeanCountryFacesWhiteTeachSupportTakenDogKingsPoliceClubsBeastWhite ManLutherCaptivityDefenselessReverends Author:Malcolm X
“Yume is a no-nonsense dog. There are many people here, with camcorders running, lights shining and cameras clicking. She is being a guard dog.” PeopleLightRunningDogCamerasShiningNonsenseNo NonsenseGuard Dogs Author:Vladimir Putin
“My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.” PeopleYearsLittlesBlackPresidentDifferencesWhiteBehindsBoysWifeDogYears AgoFolksScaredSmellMy WifeRanJailNo FearLittle BoysTrifling Author:Dick Gregory
“I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."” PeopleNeedsSaidStoriesKidsHateBreakBloodDogCoupleLibraryHungryHeyHatedHeightBossLunch80sArizonaRecommendationsPublic LibraryLunch Break Author:John Darnielle
“The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansLittlesMistakeDogBehaviorAssumingBiggest Mistake Author:Cesar Millan
“I think some dogs may like the attention of being dressed up by their humans because they interpret it as affection, but unless it's something that you've made the dog used to from the time it was a puppy, it's probably going to always feel a little weird and unnatural to the dog. This doesn't mean I think people should never dress their dogs up as long as they do it for the right reasons. If you're putting booties and a coat on your dog to protect it from the weather, then that's a pretty legitimate reason.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsShouldHumansMayMeanLittlesLongMadeReasonUsedAttentionDogProtectDressesAffectionWeatherCoatsUnnaturalPuppyDressed UpBooty Author:Cesar Millan