Quotes about Rat (278 quotes)

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures! Votes: 3

Jeff Smith

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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here. Votes: 3

Harry Anderson

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Rat is a lot like duck, except with a wonderfully nutty flavor. Votes: 3

Cody Lundin

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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started. Votes: 3

Lorna Luft

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The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having... Votes: 3

Kenneth Grahame

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I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall. Votes: 3

Joseph Barbera

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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. Votes: 3

Jasper Fforde

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Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead, Votes: 3

Laurell K. Hamilton

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I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story. Votes: 3

Tim O'Brien

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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other. Votes: 3

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third. Votes: 3

Richelle E. Goodrich

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I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy. Votes: 3

Jonah Hill

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Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing. Votes: 3

James Darren

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When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat. Votes: 3

Norman Lock

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I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music. Votes: 3

Ella Henderson

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The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow. Votes: 3

Ray Liotta

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Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son. Votes: 3

China Mieville

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When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele. Votes: 3

Dennis Miller

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When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition. Votes: 3

Kenneth Grahame

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Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going' nor you either, if you've got any sense at all. Votes: 3

Kenneth Grahame

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I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly. Votes: 3

Ne-Yo

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Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister. Votes: 3

Scott Adams

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The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks." Votes: 3

Kenneth Grahame

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For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe. Votes: 3

Tim O'Brien

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You dirty, double-crossing rat. Votes: 1

James Cagney

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Schools are not exam factories for the rat race. Votes: 1

Johann Lamont

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A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit! Votes: 1

Sarah Jessica Parker

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How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat? Votes: 1

Suge Knight

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To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat. Votes: 1

Frank Shorter

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I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats. Votes: 1

Jerry Nachman

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. Votes: 1

Edmund Burke

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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. Votes: 1

W. C. Fields

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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Votes: 1

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. Votes: 1

Michael Shermer

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Votes: 1

Lily Tomlin

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You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit. Votes: 1

Sarah Jessica Parker

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You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job. Votes: 1

Kevin Costner

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You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut. Votes: 1

Robert De Niro

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The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. Votes: 1

John Spencer

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History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live! Votes: 1

James Howard Kunstler

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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Votes: 1

Ingrid Newkirk

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Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze. Votes: 1

Teri Garr

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Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. Votes: 1

Jimmy Reid

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I kind of became a gym rat. The more results I saw, the more dedicated I became. It is such a great feeling to see your hard work pay off. I mean, if I'm gonna skip the In-N-Out burgers, there better be light at the end of the tunnel! Votes: 1

Jonathan Lipnicki

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A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. Votes: 1

Jimmy Reid

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Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us. Votes: 1

Shari Arison

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The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' Votes: 1

Julian Fellowes

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I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body. Votes: 1

Christine Lakin

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Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else. Votes: 1

Joe Cowley

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Nobody gives a rat's nipple about me. Votes: 0

Monta Ellis

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I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat! Votes: 0

James Cagney

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That's not a rat, that's my ferret. Votes: 0

Jennifer Aniston

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In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! Votes: 0

Bette Davis

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My place, your place, slapped face, rat race. Votes: 0

Roger Daltrey

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I'd love to see that rat nose smashed! Votes: 0

James Dashner

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You're a mouse studying to be a rat. Votes: 0

Wilson Mizner

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TV is the rat race of the century. Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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I live like a crazy old pack rat. Votes: 0

Martha Plimpton

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Only a rat can win a rat race. Votes: 0

Michael Franti

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I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat. Votes: 0

Mitch Landrieu

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Schools are not exam factories for the rat race." Votes: 0

Johann Lamont

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Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT! Votes: 0

Robin Williams

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To a rat, a small hole is like a door. Votes: 0

Helena

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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress Votes: 0

Judy Sheindlin

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I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine. Votes: 0

Shaquille O'Neal

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It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague. Votes: 0

Larissa Ione

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Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. Votes: 0

Aman Jassal

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The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay. Votes: 0

Amy Grant

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You can win the rat race but you're still a rat. Votes: 0

Banksy

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A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Votes: 0

Ingrid Newkirk

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It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. Votes: 0

Arthur Mutambara

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Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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Kad rat pravi zurku, redosled gostiju uvek je istiPrvo dodu PopoviPa TopoviPa Lopovi Votes: 0

Đorđe Balašević

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I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer. Votes: 0

Tim Howard

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Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. Votes: 0

A. E. Housman

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Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. Votes: 0

Billy Corgan

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. Votes: 0

Alfred Edward Housman

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When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton. Votes: 0

Chael Sonnen

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He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor. Votes: 0

Stevie Nicks

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You might be a redneck if your birth announcement included the word rug rat. Votes: 0

Jeff Foxworthy

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If you join the rat race â you're in the race of rats. Votes: 0

Bertolt Brecht

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I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat. Votes: 0

Paul Pierce

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Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat. Votes: 0

Linda Ellerbee

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I have one chocolate Lab named Jasmine. I also had a rat named Sky. Votes: 0

Jason Dolley

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People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat. Votes: 0

Paul Palmer

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One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat? Votes: 0

Shannon Hale

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I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring. Votes: 0

Tom Waits

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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception Votes: 0

Randy Alcorn

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ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble. Votes: 0

Robert M. Sapolsky

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A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. Votes: 0

Jo Nesbo

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I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing. Votes: 0

Jim Caviezel

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If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape." Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler. Votes: 0

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

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I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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I was a gym rat and I always thought that was a part of my success. Votes: 0

Andre Reed

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I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while. Votes: 0

Tom Wilson

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I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing. Votes: 0

Aprilynne Pike

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I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170- Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat. Votes: 0

Corinne Maier

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We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it. Votes: 0

Adriano Bulla

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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat. Votes: 0

Sonny Bono

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You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business. Votes: 0

Jeff Foxworthy

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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches? Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. Votes: 0

Ida B. Wells

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The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. Votes: 0

Lori Foster

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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. Votes: 0

Sean Penn

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The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. Votes: 0

Lori Foster

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I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat! Votes: 0

Jeremy Irvine

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I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived! Votes: 0

Shirley Manson

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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick. Votes: 0

Kim Harrison

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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television Votes: 0

Amy Poehler

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Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why did Judas rat to the Romans while Jesus slept? Votes: 0

Ghostface Killah

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I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless. Votes: 0

Dennis Miller

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I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood. Votes: 0

Maria V. Snyder

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You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. Votes: 0

Angus Wilson

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The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog? Votes: 0

DMX

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It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat. Votes: 0

Richard Koch

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Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls! Votes: 0

Drew Carey

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Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else"Satan has us just where he wants us. Votes: 0

Hugh Nibley

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One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon

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Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat! Votes: 0

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse. Votes: 0

Cinda Williams Chima

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Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat. Votes: 0

Mike Tyson

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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media. Votes: 0

Ann Coulter

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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly. Votes: 0

Will Ferrell

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This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. Votes: 0

Anne Sexton

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Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it. Votes: 0

Dewitt Jones

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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze. Votes: 0

Mike Tyson

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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. Votes: 0

Dick Cavett

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When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth. Votes: 0

Mike Dirnt

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When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Votes: 0

Ingrid Newkirk

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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. Votes: 0

Hanif Kureishi

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Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. Votes: 0

Gene Perret

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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though. Votes: 0

Courtney Love

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I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it. Votes: 0

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat. Votes: 0

John Green

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Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile. Votes: 0

Perrie Edwards

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I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper. Votes: 0

Ellen Goodman

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Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat. Votes: 0

Terrell Owens

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the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon! Votes: 0

Anne Bosworth Greene

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This is the saddest place on Earth," I say."Take it from a rat, kid--there are lots of saddest places on Earth." Votes: 0

Chris Lynch

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He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie. Votes: 0

Rainbow Rowell

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I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form. Votes: 0

Erin Fall Haskell

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Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there Votes: 0

Sebastian Barry

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My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat. Votes: 0

Beth Ditto

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The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight. Votes: 0

Erma Bombeck

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There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. Votes: 0

Laurie Halse Anderson

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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. Votes: 0

Margaret Halsey

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I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. Votes: 0

Chelsea Cain

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I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons. Votes: 0

Matt Goldman

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What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons. Votes: 0

Matthew Goldman

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Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. Votes: 0

Hunter S. Thompson

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Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it. Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak. Votes: 0

Scott Westerfeld

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The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. Votes: 0

Nellie Bly

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Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination. Votes: 0

Lorraine Moller

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Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. Votes: 0

Anna Quindlen

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Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. Votes: 0

Boyle Roche

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Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc. Votes: 0

Julian Assange

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Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. Votes: 0

David Baldacci

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He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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I especially like Ron. Sometimes you feel so sorry for him because he's always getting stuff from his brothers. And he's got a fat, lazy rat. Votes: 0

Rupert Grint

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It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. Votes: 0

Jean Harris

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I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. Votes: 0

Louis MacNeice

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Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George) Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn't be having this conversation," said Ripred. Votes: 0

Suzanne Collins

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My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing. Votes: 0

Georges Danton

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We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat. Votes: 0

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs. Votes: 0

Michael Jensen

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He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace! Votes: 0

Brian Jacques

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I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car. Votes: 0

Marianne Wiggins

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Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel. Votes: 0

David Letterman

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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything Votes: 0

E. B. White

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I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water"and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. Votes: 0

Ray Kroc

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Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have. Votes: 0

Dane DeHaan

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I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding. Votes: 0

Pat Martin

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I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film. Votes: 0

Jim Caviezel

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It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel. Votes: 0

Graydon Carter

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Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles. Votes: 0

Mickey Cohen

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Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade. Votes: 0

Rob Sheffield

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I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make. Votes: 0

Emile Hirsch

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We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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I have a rat inside my skull that runs on a treadmill - pitta-patta pitta-patta pitta-patta. I enjoy the company of other people who experience that pitta-patta in their skulls. Votes: 0

Richard Lederer

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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense. Votes: 0

Julie Burchill

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It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet." Votes: 0

Jess Lair

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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur. Votes: 0

Samantha Bee

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It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge." Votes: 0

Lykke Li

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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it. Votes: 0

Sam Taylor-Wood

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It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow? Votes: 0

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe. Votes: 0

Barbara Holland

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It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing. Votes: 0

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

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To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it." Votes: 0

Sam Taylor Wood

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The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one. Votes: 0

Lee Child

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If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt. Votes: 0

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all. Votes: 0

Megan Abbott

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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat. Votes: 0

Carolyn Heilbrun

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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior. Votes: 0

B. F. Skinner

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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges. Votes: 0

Paige Butcher

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Criminals did not have friends. They had associates, suppliers, fences, whores, sugar daddies, enablers, dealers, collaborators, co-conspirators, victims and bosses, any of whom they might rat out and none of whom could be trusted." Votes: 0

Robert Crais

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The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust. Votes: 0

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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All it takes is for me to be seen chatting up a girl for [tabloids] to, you know, make up some crappy headline about me being a sex rat or whatever they call it. Votes: 0

Daniel Radcliffe

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I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. Votes: 0

Alan Alda

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I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it. Votes: 0

Don King

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Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off. Votes: 0

Suzanne Collins

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Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut. Votes: 0

Nicholas Pileggi

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When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another. Votes: 0

Bruce Conner

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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were. Votes: 0

Daniel Berrigan

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Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat. Votes: 0

Charb

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