Ferrets Quotes

• Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lovely, Noble, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• That's not a rat, that's my ferret.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Rats

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• There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clockwork Angel, Gabriel Lightwood

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

  J. K. Rowling

  Littles, Draco Malfoy, Hermione

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• Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Chance, Decent

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “The Hathaways Complete Series: Mine Till Midnight, Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight, Married by Morning, and Love in the Afternoon”, p.928, Macmillan

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• Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

  Alton Brown

  Hurt, Food, Giving

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• Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

  Simone Elkeles

  Cute, Thinking, Order

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Humor, Why Not

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• He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

  Bill McLaren

  Rugby, Demented

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• Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.

  Cheshire Cat

  Running, Haste Makes Waste, Dresses

  "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  Jay Griffiths

  Cat, Animal, Squirrels

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Numbers, Bird

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• Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Solitude, May

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• Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Blind Spots, Faithful

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• Mayor de Blasio has legalized ferrets. Now you can legally own ferrets in New York City. I want to tell you something. If I want to see anymore beady-eyed little weasels, I'll just keep riding the subway.

  David Letterman

  New York, Cities, Riding

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• People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Light, Views

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• I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Oxford, Topshop, Branches

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Mistake, Eye, Giving

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Dream, Thinking, Hands

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• I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with "dog parties," and then invite their friends who don't even have dogs. I understand why people like dogs, and I think they definitely bring more to the table than cats or those godforsaken ferrets, but I don't think it's healthy for people to treat their dogs like they are real people.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Dog, Real

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read it and really enjoy it as an audience member. I think that's given me the ability to ferret out the really special scripts from all the rest.

  William H. Macy

  Thinking, Play, Special

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Ears, Tissues

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.772, Bantam

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• There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Keys, Personality

  "How To Win Friends and Influence People".

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• But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.

  Kevin Hearne

  Guilt, Necks, Stinky

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1055, Del Rey

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