Hairballs Quotes

• Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hope, Birth, Trembling

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• All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

  Steven Wright

  Cat, People, Insanity

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• The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• I'm afraid I have to expel a rather ferocious hairball. You're on your own, girl.

  Cheshire Cat

  Girl

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

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• But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Soul, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.174, Random House

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• I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.

  Stephanie Miller

  Cat, Able

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Cat, Looks, Way

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• This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

  Scott McNealy

  Running, Kids, Giving

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• At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mustache, Risk, Stripes

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• Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sound, Choke

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• A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

  Ann Brashares

  Years, Long, Tangled

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.88, Random House

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• Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Kissing, Poppies

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.28, Anchor

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• Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wise, Dog, Sweet

  Ray Bradbury (1991). “On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays”, Plume

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