Tom Junod Quotes

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

When a cocker spaniel bites, it does so as a member of its species; it is never anything but a dog. When a pit bull bites, it does so as a member of its breed. A pit bull is never anything but a pit bull.

I read that all dogs have wolf DNA in them, which seemed preposterous because my dog, Tucker, is... afraid of plastic bags blowing in the wind. I thought, 'How can Tucker have wolf in him? How can this be?' So I started researching it.

I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

I don't need a huge pit bull to tell me I'm tough.

I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.

When I say "dogs", I'm talking about dogs, which are large, bounding, salivating animals, usually with bad breath. I am not talking about those little squeaky things you can hold on your lap and carry around. Zoologically speaking, these are not dogs at all; they are members of the pillow family.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

I have basset hounds. I have four now, I've had more in the past, and I relate to them because physically we're similar, in that they have very short legs and kind of long torsos, and I do as well.

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

I got a new dog. He's a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he's not sure what I threw him.

I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.

I don't remember any blue poodles.

Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

It's a big mistake when encyclopedias say "loyal" - this dog, this breed has this ability to be loyal, to be a one person dog. I don't agree with that. I think all dogs are honest, all dogs have integrity, all dogs are loyal and they're all capable of loving you. It doesn't come from the breed. It comes from the dog.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.