#dogs

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect -- the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours -- and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#dogs #lovecraft #business

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#cat #cats #come #different #different types

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#cat #cats #come #different #dogs

Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#dog

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#dogs #failed #find #inspire #kind

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#animal #animal lover #been #brussels #cared

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#impact #make-a-difference #underdogs #faith

I wish all men were like dogs. ↗

— Halle Berry

#i #i wish #like #men #were

In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you can trust. Human beings may be her finest achievement yet, but when you get right down to brass tacks, we're meat. AIDS and organisms like streptococcus don't give a crap that we subdued the earth or produced a Shakespeare... ↗

— Richard Yancey

#dogs #humor #mystery #philosophy #nature

The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys. ↗

— Melissa Rivers

#contestants #covering #dogs #due #fact