“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

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American journalist 1956

Anne Rivers Siddons (1936–2019) novelist from the United States

Source: Colony

“I have forgotten much, but still remember
The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.”

Claude McKay (1889–1948) Jamaican American writer, poet

Flame-Heart, l. 9-10

“A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat’s eyes don’t even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog’s eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, “What do you want me to do for you? I’ll do anything for you.” Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don’t have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.”

Roy Blount Jr. (1941) American writer

“Dogs Vis-A-Vis Cats,” Now Where Were We?, Random House (1989).

“Sookie, my little blood-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm.
Eric, my big bullshitter.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Variant: Sookie, my little bullet-sucker"
Eric, my big bullshitter
Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.”

Terry Brooks A Princess of Landover

Source: A Princess of Landover

“As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson book Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“It would be very unlucky for cats if people in a body should discover how much more jolly it was to be out in the warm golden mist of moonlight, when all was so fresh and sweet, than tucked up in their heated bedrooms under the low ceiling that shuts out the stars.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 9, p. 108.

“When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals”

John Green (1977) American author and vlogger

: The Fall of The Roman Empire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PszVWZNWVA
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“If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.”

Anne Michaels (1958) Poet and novelist

“Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.”

George Gershwin (1898–1937) American composer and pianist

"The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music (1933); reprinted in Gregory R. Suriano (ed.) Gershwin in His Time (New York: Gramercy, 1998) p. 97.

“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”

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