Top 1200 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for Wells Fargo, so I had my gun and hat, which weighed me down in the heat. It was 97 degrees here in New York, and they had to turn the air conditioner off because it was too loud. So, I say, "Damn, it's hot in here!" That's how we came up with the song, "Damn, It's Hot." It was from our soul. We just got together, sang and made our own lyrics.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books, it's actually really wonderful. I tend to have that reaction: I don't want to read it if everyone thinks it's cool. It was a really interesting insight into being young and male. Now that made me feel really thankful for my boyfriend and really thankful because he wasn't like that protagonist, but I know so many people who are like that protagonist.

Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.

I'm just a softie at heart, a scaredy cat.

I'm actually quite a scaredy cat, myself.

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It's a strange business to begin with - rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It's ugly, the suspension's appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can't hear yourself speak above the engine.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

We have to focus on growing the economy, getting people working again, so they can put a roof over their heads to provide health care and education for their children and plan for their retirement.

Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot.

A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.

It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......!

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed

She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

People suffering from cancer, or diabetes, or asthma or any other preexisting condition shouldn't have to live in fear of losing their coverage or seeing their premiums go through the roof.

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe

I'd love to just do movies and play with my cat.

My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any weather, safely and dependably. The C-47 groaned, it protested, it rattled, it leaked oil, it ran hot, it ran cold, it ran rough, it staggered along on hot days and scared you half to death, its wings flexed and twisted in a horrifying manner, it sank back to earth with a great sigh of relief - but it flew and it flew and it flew.

Multiple cat households are a good thing.

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

I'm like a mad cat and dog woman.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves.

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

If I'm a crazy cat lady, so be it. I'm very proud.

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room. We're talking about high technology across the board, whether it's computer chips or cars or anything in between.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I never date anyone my cat doesn't like.