Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

I think cats would have an even worse attitude if they found out how stupid their names were.

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.