Nikola Tesla Quotes

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?

My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle.

The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.

The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them.