Eileen Myles Quotes

A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

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

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

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

Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

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

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

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 dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.