Andy Rooney Quotes

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human's eyes.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.

Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.