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ELIOT Did I just see you litter?' 'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out. MICHELLE HODKIN Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten." My head jerked around and I shot him ... JEANIENE FROST Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets... JERRY SPINELLI Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.” “Clary? It’s me, Emma.” “Oh, Emma, ... CASSANDRA CLARE The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may... T.S. ELIOT Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love? BASHō MATSUO I had a cat I could not see, Because it stayed in back of me. It was a very loyal pet- PEGGY RATHMANN You adopted him," I said when Romeo sat on the coffee table in front of me. "You love him," he ... CAMBRIA HEBERT Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others ban... FRANK BEDDOR Please. What’s your name?” Coraline asked the cat. “Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?” ... NEIL GAIMAN The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunch... CARL SANDBURG The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent hau... CARL SANDBURG From CATS ARE KIND "I saw a dog pursuing automobiles; On and on he sped. HENRY N. BEARD He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.) And his footprints are not found in ... T.S. ELIOT Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is reall... T.S. ELIOT See! He likes you,” Natalie said triumphantly. I stared down at the scrawny scrap of fu... JOSH LANYON Cats don’t have names,” it said. “No?” said Coraline. “No,” said t... NEIL GAIMAN Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That dep... LEWIS CARROLL I haven’t been avoiding you,” “You’re lying. The last time we were both at dinne... KRISTEN ASHLEY Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name... LEWIS CARROLL He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him... JOSH LANYON As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to ... LOUISE GLüCK Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of... JEANIENE FROST But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said t... LEWIS CARROLL Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt ... ERIN HUNTER It's Halloween, The night we all play, Trick or treat, We won't go away. Be we g... ANTHONY T.HINCKS What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you wer... CASSANDRA CLARE That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. H... STEPHEN FRY Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on whe... LEWIS CARROLL Been a pleasure, Don Gato. Have a sexy evening.” The cat looked dryly at him before hopping d... CLAIRE CRAY I may not be beautiful, I may not be tall, I may have no legs, And be hairy and all.<... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette JEANIENE FROST When I was ten years old, one of my friends brought a Shaleenian kangaroo-cat to school one day. I r... DAVID GERROLD Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't.. Just a trick of the woods! Just ... STEPHEN SONDHEIM Sleepwalking?" "Nightmare?" "Homicidal psycho jungle cat! BILL WATTERSON Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEA... TERRY PRATCHETT The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door... CASSANDRA CLARE With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do ... T.S. ELIOT The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..." Mencheres to Cat JEANIENE FROST And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I... WILL ADVISE The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing ... THEODORE ROETHKE even in death, his last breath was poetry existing in the wind and on the breeze of ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours. ~ Cheshire Cat LEWIS CARROLL I stopped looking around when I heard a soft “mew” and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouch... KRISTEN ASHLEY You like the party? Is it in honour of anything? My cat's birthday. Where's your cat?... CASSANDRA CLARE The multicolored kitten snuggled between her breasts. Lucky cat. "I thought ma... CANDIS TERRY She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." A... NEIL GAIMAN May your love for me be like the scent of the evening sea drifting in thr... SANOBER KHAN The dark sky. A hundred million stars. More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes le... BETH REVIS See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philos... ALEXANDER POPE And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was s... LAURIE ANDERSON You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last present you gave me was a stick.”... DEREK LANDY So--what's it like, being a vampire?" "Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ... CASSANDRA CLARE You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ... BRIAN ANDREAS I HOLD If I could have had him, I could have let him go. COCO J. GINGER This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Som... PHILIP LARKIN What hope is here for modern rhyme To him, who turns a musing eye On songs, and deeds, and... ALFRED TENNYSON Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple yea... ED SHEERAN See, I have dated death and decided he was not the man for me. KARA PETROVIC I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten w... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silve... RICK RIORDAN ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that. "Cake or dea... EDDIE IZZARD We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyon... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Cancer is a curious thing... Nobody knows what the cause is, Though some pretend they do; I... W. H. AUDEN They won't live their lives... They see things they don't wanna see Yet they won't shut t... FLONJA AKSHIJA Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not ... ELLEN HOPKINS Perhaps he would have no title or fortune to offer her, but he was determined to see her safe. ... TESSA DARE The Cat and the Moon The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top... W.B. YEATS When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when... MARY OLIVER Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's ... CASSANDRA CLARE He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, ... MICHAEL ENDE 'But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you cant help that,' said the... LEWIS CARROLL and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again CHARLES BUKOWSKI Lok’tar ogar!” The daemon holding me pulled my head back, exposing my throat. “Victory or... ALLISON PANG ON THE DAY I DIE On the day I die, when I'm being carried toward the grave, don't we... RUMI But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat.... NEIL GAIMAN Work on Purpose - Play on Purpose - Rest on Purpose - Do not let yourself or a... IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but t... TED HUGHES I found no oceans in your eyes, no windy storms or starry skies. Neither a pearl... AKASH MANDAL There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now. VIKRAM SETH I will miss my chest exploding you coming home late not turning on the light alw... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat ju... MARGARET WISE BROWN The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make... LEWIS CARROLL And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life Cause sooner or la... AMY PLUM Coincidences undeniably imply meaning. I am rereading Hart Crane. I notice the date<... DAVID MARKSON COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What wa... SUZY KASSEM What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,'... NEIL GAIMAN One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizab... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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REID HOFFMAN I usually allocate time each week to work on topics outside of the normal workflow. These topics can... REID HOFFMAN Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty t... REID HOFFMAN As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions mad... REID HOFFMAN I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations mo... REID HOFFMAN I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strength... REID HOFFMAN Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage. REID HOFFMAN I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've ... REID HOFFMAN I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert. REID HOFFMAN Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 1... REID HOFFMAN As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a fiv... REID HOFFMAN MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, ... REID HOFFMAN And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who... REID HOFFMAN Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they... REID HOFFMAN If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn shou... REID HOFFMAN My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn. REID HOFFMAN I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not. REID HOFFMAN What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and... REID HOFFMAN Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is s... REID HOFFMAN The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the... REID HOFFMAN Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca... REID HOFFMAN You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. REID HOFFMAN Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it. REID HOFFMAN Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location. REID HOFFMAN Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really po... REID HOFFMAN One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Act... REID HOFFMAN Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In d... JIMMY REID The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live. REID SCOTT I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff. REID SCOTT I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid. REID SCOTT I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris... REID SCOTT One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White... REID SCOTT I've got to say, I enjoy a good suit. Something about a really well-tailored suit; I like it. REID SCOTT