Mice Quotes - Page 18

• Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction”, Viking Press

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• Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Black

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• The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

  Steve Ovett

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

  Fred Frith

  Memories, Writing, Association

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• I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Good Morning, Humor

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• Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

  Joan Dunayer

  Hurt, Pain, Empathy

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• In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef -- staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

  William Allen White

  Food, Animal, Cooking

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• It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Cat, Games, Reader

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• A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

  Gautama Buddha

  Sweet, Men, Two

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• Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sexy, Stars, Interesting

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

  Garth Nix

  Moon, Light, Tree

  Garth Nix (2009). “Abhorsen”, p.509, Zondervan

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• Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Skeletons, Coconuts, Chess

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• There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Hands, Law, Snakes

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.

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• Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

  Annette Funicello

  Sister, Guests, Clubs

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• Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Country, Thinking, Alarms

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

  Horace

  Stupid, Silly, Mountain

  'Ars Poetica' l. 139

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• On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

  Chip Kidd

  Race, Ideas, America

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

  Will Cuppy

  Home, Cobras, Rats

  "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

  Flann O'Brien

  Jobs, Majority, Politician

  Flann O'Brien (1989). “The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'”

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• And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes. Everything edible, from mice and chipmunks to roots and berries and apples was converted into bear. And bear and his tracks are converted into wonder and adventure for man.

  Harvey Broome

  Adventure, Men, Squirrels

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• Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Littles, Murder

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• The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cat, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Unique, Identity

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• Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

  Margaret Atwood

  White, Long, Cages

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.106, Anchor

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