Jim Butcher Quotes

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Every cat knows some things need to be buried.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

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

At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

First be a good animal.