Cats do this thing with their faces where they’re so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they’re observing.
— Emma Corrin, source unspecified.
Author: Mr. Breeze
I do be a kitteh. I haz a blog.
Quote: Joseph Wood Krutch on Cats
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
— Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year
In The Desert Year, Joseph Wood Krutch explores the plants, animals, and changing seasons of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Look, the place may seem dry and empty, but it’s packed with life if you bother to pay attention. With curiosity and humor, Krutch shows how living things survive, and what they might teach people while they’re at it.
Quote: Paula Poundstone on Cats
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, source unspecified.
Quote: Jules Verne on Cats
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
— Jules Verne, source unspecified.
Quote: Tom Nichols on Cats
Superstitions are especially prone to confirmation bias, and they survive because common sense and confirmation bias sometimes reinforce each other. Are black cats unlucky? Cats, black or otherwise, by their nature tend to get underfoot, but we might only remember the black ones who trip us up. I actually live with a lovely black cat named Carla, and I can confirm that she is, on occasion, a menace to my navigation of the stairs. A superstitious person might nod here knowingly,; the fact that Carla is also the only cat in the house, of course, or whether other cat owners have tumbled over their tabbies will mean nothing.
— Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise
Quote: William S. Burroughs on Cats
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
— William S. Burroughs, “The Cat Inside“
Quote: Peter S. Beagle on Cats
I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn is about a unicorn who may be the last one left. So, naturally, she leaves her forest to find the others. Along the way, she finds friendship, love, trouble, and plenty of heartache. Even author Ursula K. Le Guin said Peter S. Beagle gave the story his “own particular magic.”
Quote: Charles Bukowski on Cats
when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns
— Charles Bukowski, On Cats
Quote: Ray Bradbury On Cats
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.
— Napoleon Bonaparte, quoted in Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène by Cases De Las
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