Roseanne Barr Quotes

I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

Cats are useless.

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.

I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

I stay away from negative relationships. They are energy-sapping vampires. I can't handle them.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

cats choose us; we don't own them

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amusement as required. I think Mister considered it beneath his dignity to plan for the future.

It is also amazing to find just how religious and occult-minded some of the leading political and military players of the war were, from von Moltke and Ludendorff to Brusilov and J F C Fuller. Each, in his way, was deeply involved in what we would today call the occult, spiritualism, and visionary religion.

I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.

Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.