“We looked! Then we saw him
Step in on the mat!
We looked! And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!”
Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat (1957)
“A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.”
Taren Ferry saying
(15 October 1994)
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“A rabbit out of a hat. Something out of nothing.”
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: What I would prefer to have is to have a kind of magic where we say, "OK, we’re going to do a magical performance on this night, at this time. You come along, if you don’t think it’s magical, that’s fine. We’ll show you. We’ll show you what we mean, and you judge for yourself." That’s only fair. So a lot of the magic we do tends to gravitate toward the practical end, toward something that is tangible. Where you’ve got a record at the end of it, a performance at the end of it, a painting at the end of it. You’ve conjured some energy, some idea, some information from somewhere and put it in a tangible form. You conjure something into existence in a literal sense. A rabbit out of a hat. Something out of nothing. That’s one level to it, but there’s a lot of background to that. That’s the stuff that people see, that’s the end result of the process. But we also do a lot of ritual work purely on our own.
“I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom ;
J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.
Satire I, l. 51
Satires (1716)
“Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat.”
Olaf Stapledon book Sirius
Source: Sirius (1944), Chapter VIII Sirius at Cambridge.
“Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.”
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274
Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur
Carry on Tradition
On Albums, Hip Hop Is Dead (2006)
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: Thoreau Journal 9
