T. S. Eliot Quotes

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

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.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'

The underlying goal of comedy is feeling not-alone.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.

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

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.