One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.
FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.
I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!
I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.
If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.
Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
I've never been no superficial cat.
After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
If you're an old cat around young girls, you got to have somethin' to bring to the table.
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.