David Norris (1944) Irish scholar, independent Senator, and gay and civil rights activist
28 May 2013 http://www.kildarestreet.com/sendebates/?id=2013-05-28a.7&s=speaker%3A210#g126
“A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.”
Last update Nov. 2, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be." by Andrew Vachss?
Andrew Vachss27
American writer and lawyer 1942Related quotes
“He's smilin' like a butcher's dog!”
Mike Lange (1948) Canadian sportscaster
"Eddie Spaghetti! The Story Behind Mike Lange-isms"
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
John Osborne (1929–1994) English playwright
Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,945814,00.html <br class="br">Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: Horns
Christopher Hampton (1946) British playwright, screenwriter and film director
Sunday Times Magazine (London, October 16, 1977)
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
Context: "But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!"
Not what he pleases, but what he can. If he be not a true man, he will draw evil out of the best; we need not mind how he treats any work of art! If he be a true man, he will imagine true things: what matter whether I meant them or not? They are there none the less that I cannot claim putting them there! One difference between God's work and man's is, that, while God's work cannot mean more than he meant, man's must mean more than he meant. For in everything that God has made, there is layer upon layer of ascending significance; also he expresses the same thought in higher and higher kinds of that thought: it is God's things, his embodied thoughts, which alone a man has to use, modified and adapted to his own purposes, for the expression of his thoughts; therefore he cannot help his words and figures falling into such combinations in the mind of another as he had himself not foreseen, so many are the thoughts allied to every other thought, so many are the relations involved in every figure, so many the facts hinted in every symbol. A man may well himself discover truth in what he wrote; for he was dealing all the time with things that came from thoughts beyond his own.
