Rats Quotes - Page 19

• I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Interesting, Research

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• I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

  Joan Didion

  Turns, Packs

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• I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Pet, Looks, Way

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

  Mos Def

  Believe, People, Social

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• The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."

  Julian Fellowes

  Party, Men, Numbers

  "My family values". Interview with Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Kids, Guy, Working Together

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• In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

  Bette Davis

  Race, Innocence, Guilty

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• My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  War, Grandfather, Tanks

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• Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

  Jean Ferris

  Rodents, Mice

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• And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

  James Clavell

  Kings, Luck, Together

  JAMES CLAVELL (1962). “KING RAT”

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• And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

  Harlan Ellison

  Country, Ice, Tears

  Drew Ford, Harlan Ellison (2016). “Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny”, p.83, Courier Dover Publications

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• When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide. Either you're going to be an academic or you're going to be a pastor. You can't be both." I remember thinking, Rats! I want to be both! Why are you telling me I can't do these two things?And so I have kind of oscillated to and always wanted to do both.

  N. T. Wright

  Teacher, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

  Jeff Smith

  Stupid, Creatures

  Jeff Smith (2007). “The Art of Bone”

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• Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Father, Winning, Race

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Mother, Disappointment

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.64, Candlewick Press

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• Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

  R. D. Laing

  Book, Perfect One, Race

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• In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

  Dennis Miller

  Revenge, Character, Kids

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.126, Crown Forum

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• I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

  Voltaire

  Two, Stronger, Lions

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• Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

  Roger Ebert

  Reading, Library Research, Computer

  "Critical Eye". Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998.

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• I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.

  Steven Yeun

  Home, Psych, College

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

  E. O. Wilson

  Simple, Brain, Mazes

  "Ants and Answers: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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• If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Emotional, Trouble, Bigs

  "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences". Robert M. Sapolsky's lecture at Washington State University, October 10, 2001.

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• He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Doors, Fur

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• TV is the rat race of the century.

  Groucho Marx

  Race, Tvs, Century

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