A Quote by Mason Cooley

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Mason Cooley

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Cow Idea Knows May Only Represent

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

Bob Dylan

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

Mason Cooley

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.

Ogden Nash

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

Ogden Nash

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

Noel Coward

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

Morey Amsterdam

Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.

Joan Rivers

It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.

P. G. Wodehouse

I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.

Dorothy Wordsworth

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

Louis Sachar

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

Stephen King

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Edward Abbey

Who did you eat this time? (Acheron) It wasn’t a who, akri. It was something that had hornies on its head like me. There were a bunch of them actually. All of them had hornies and they made a strange moo-moo sound. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wanted to represent for Polynesians, and that was always my goal, because not everyone knows about us, and I just want to represent for them.

Dinah Jane

Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: "The cow says moo!