„You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.“

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American writer 1960

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„"What's your name," Coraline asked the cat. "Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?"
"Cats don't have names," it said.
"No?" said Coraline.
"No," said the cat. "Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."“

— Neil Gaiman, book Coraline

Coraline (2002)

People, Cats

„Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.“

— Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011

2007-11-06
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Christopher Hitchens
978-0306816086
http://quotes.pink/god/quote-8195/
2000s, 2007

God, Food, Dogs, Cats

„The only thing I care about is whether a monkey will turn out a property I can publish. I don't have any love for them. Never have. I don't really like animals. I despise cats. I hate dogs. How could you like monkeys?“

— Harry Harlow American psychologist 1905 - 1981

Interview with Pittsburgh Press-Roto, 1974. Quoted in Blum, Deborah. The Monkey Wars. Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 92.

Love, Hate, Dogs, Cats

„People don't know how great you are. People don't know how smart you are. These are the smart people. These are the smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it, but I say it. And I'm a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. Some say it, but they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people.“

— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

Council Bluffs, Iowa, quoted in * 2016-09-29
Donald Trump's Bizarre Speech: 'You Are The Smartest People'
Leading Britain's Conversation
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/us-election/donald-trump/donald-trumps-bizarre-speech-smartest-people/
2016, September 2016

Personality, Hate, People

„If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.“

— Douglas Adams, book The Salmon of Doubt

Douglas Adams. The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time. New York: Random House, 2002, 135–136.
Also quoted by Richard Dawkins in his Eulogy for Douglas Adams (17 September 2001) http://www.edge.org/documents/adams_index.html
Context: If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; it is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding that we just think of it as a different class of object, a different class of matter; 'life', something that had a mysterious essence about it, was God given, and that's the only explanation we had. The bombshell comes in 1859 when Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.

Cats

„You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.“

— Roberto Bolaño Chilean author 1953 - 2003

„Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?“

— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II 1921

Source: At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965. https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/

Cats, Bird, Men

„Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.“

— Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964

Source: Married By Morning

Love, Cats

„Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.“

— Michael Lewis American writer 1960

Source: Boomerang (2011), Chapter 2, p.17

Dogs, Way, Cats

„If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.“

— Robert A. Heinlein American science fiction author 1907 - 1988

Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 1

Cats

„And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."“

— Harry Chapin American musician 1942 - 1981

Cat's in the Cradle
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

Home, Boy, Cats, Time

„I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.“

— Erik Naggum Norwegian computer programmer 1965 - 2009

Re: defmacro question http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6cd5295c9b463d0a (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

Pain, Cats

„Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.“

— Elizabeth Wein, book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

„You like the party?
Is it in honour of anything?
My cat's birthday.
Where's your cat?
I don't know, he ran away.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Cats, Birthday

„You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.“

— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

Life Is Worth Losing (2005)
Context: There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don’t want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right.

„You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.“

— Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Dogs, Home, Cats

„Certainly, Vollard, but listen: will you have a special dish without butter prepared for me? Mind you, no flowers on the table, and you must have dinner at half past seven sharp. I know you won't have your cat around and please don't allow anybody to bring a dog. And if there are to be any women I hope they won't come reeking of perfume. How horrible all those odors are when there are so many things that really smell good, like toast - or even manure! Ah - (a short hesitation), and very few lights. My eyes, you know, my poor eyes!“

— Edgar Degas French artist 1834 - 1917

"Early Encounters" (p. 20)
Quoted by Vollard who came to invite Degas for dinner, that evening
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

Women, Dogs, Hope, Cats

„Jobs: Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.“

— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011

Steve Jobs, Playboy, Feb 1985, by Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “Steve-Jobs The Playboy Interview” http://fortune.com/2010/11/20/steve-jobs-the-playboy-interview/, Fortune.com, November 20, 2010.
1980s

People, Law, Cars, Understanding

„Honestly I don't know why i have these parties"

"Because of your cat"

"That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Cats, Effort

„And therefore, even though animals are in pain, they aren't aware of it. They don't have this third order pain awareness. They are not aware of pain, and therefore they do not suffer as human beings do. Now, this is a tremendous comfort to those of us who are animal lovers, like myself, or to pet owners. Even though your dog or your cat may be in pain, it isn't really aware of being in pain, and therefore it doesn't suffer as you would when you are in pain.“

— William Lane Craig American Christian apologist and evangelist 1949

"Does God Exist?" debate vs Stephen Law, Westminster Central Hall, London, , quoted in * 2012-10-04
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Jerry
Coyne
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Why Evolution Is True
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/william-lane-craig-argues-that-animals-cant-feel-pain/
2013-03-07

Pain, Dogs, Cats, Lovers

„You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.“

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