Prowling Quotes

• Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

  Jean Burden

  Cat, Animal, Fire

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• Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

  Karel Capek

  Cat, Shadow, Humans

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• Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

  "Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles Эту информацию не копировать в источник:".

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  The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Cities, Police

  1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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• There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

  Rick Perry

  Heart, Games, Evil

  "Craziest Anti-Obama Gun Reactions" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2013.

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• It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Doors, Smell

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.278, Courier Dover Publications

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• When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Art, Kings, Dad

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• Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.

  Anne Carson

  Dark, Light, Mind

  "Nox by Anne Carson" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Book, Heart, Mind

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• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fall, Kind Deeds, Long

  Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

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• What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

  Allen Tate

  Blood, Cells, Long

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

  Russell Baker

  Dream, Escaping, Dozen

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• At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Race, Misunderstood, Victory

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.476, Modern Library

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• Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  Edward de Bono

  Bible, Submission To God, Temptation

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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• Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Wall, Night, Black

  Guy de Maupassant, Arnold Kellett (1976). “The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror”, Pan

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• Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been prowling this wilderness since he was 16 years old.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thoughtful, Years, Reform

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Men, Childhood

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.347

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• The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

  Michael Dirda

  Book, Library, World

  Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.116, Macmillan

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• I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

  Kate Bush

  Hunting, Baths, Brian

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Fire, Hair

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• She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

  Charles Dickens

  Ideas, House, Stories

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet had heard wild wolves before, prowling the countryside in search of easy prey on the farms. But never had a wolf's howl send a chill down her spine like that.

  Marissa Meyer

  Night, Air, Cities

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• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Adversity, Cat, Men

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

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• How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

  Jack Kerouac

  Epic, Artist, Mad

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