Mice Quotes - Page 17

• My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

  Roald Dahl

  Love You, Long, Mind

  Roald Dahl (1983). “The Witches”, Vintage

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• Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie said. "Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water." "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,'" Zia said. "You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Order, Cities

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cat, Thinking, People

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.97, Head of Zeus

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• In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

  Jim Butcher

  Heroism, Want, Action

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.494, Penguin

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• Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

  Beverly Cleary

  Boys, Two, Motorcycle

  Beverly Cleary (1998). “The Mouse and the motorcycle”

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• I see you that have a little swimming mouse

  David Sedaris

  Swimming, Littles

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• And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Book, Blessing

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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• Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fate, Men, Interesting

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.25, Candlewick Press

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• Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

  Eudora Welty

  Children, Long, Waiting

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Men, Body, Soup

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• Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it’s lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it’s still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.

  Dean Koontz

  Sweet, Forever, Promise

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.213, Bantam

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• Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Wizards, Would Be

  "Eric". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Owl, Trying

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Naked Empire”, p.315, Head of Zeus

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• Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea? The answer is... Yes. Of course it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Powerful

  "The Tale of Despereaux". Book by Kate DiCamillo, 2003.

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• Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Wall, Lying

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

  Dodie Smith

  Love, Dark, Thinking

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• Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Tree, Body

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• Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

  James Patterson

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Military

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• No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Long

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• Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dad, Growing Up, Father

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• A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
  a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
  a man at 100, and some species of
  tortoises not until 150 years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Horse, Men, Years

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• Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

  Paul Greengard

  Behavior, Protein, Antidepressants

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• The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cat, Reality, Thinking

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• A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Animal, Doe, Cows

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• I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, California, Southern

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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