Rowdy fought everybody. He fought boys and girls. Men and women. He fought stray dogs. Hell, he fought the weather. He'd throw wild punches at rain. Honestly. - Sherman Alexie Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. - Susan B Anthony

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me. - Barack Obama Cost to clean deeply soiled rugs: $200. Cost to replace shiny, black, stack-heeled, pilgrim-toed boots: $185. Cost to fix every single delicious table and chair leg in the house: $490. Life with two shelter dogs: fucking priceless. - Jen Lancaster

Because it's a brilliant Fim. It's funny, and violent, and it's got Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth in it, and everything. And a cracking sound track. Maybe there's no comparison between Ian sleeping with Laura and Reservoir Dogs after all. Ian hasn't got Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth in him. And Ian's not funny. Or violent. And he's got a crap sound track, judging from what we used to hear through the ceiling. I've taken this as far as it will go. - Nick Hornby Because it's a brilliant film. It's funny, and violent, and it's got Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth in it, and everything. And a cracking sound track. Maybe there's no comparison between Ian sleeping with Laura and Reservoir Dogs after all. Ian hasn't got Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth in him. And Ian's not funny. Or violent. And he's got a crap sound track, judging from what we used to hear through the ceiling. I've taken this as far as it will go. - Nick Hornby You read a scri...

Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach for gain. Death helps you celebrate life. War helps you work for peace. A flood makes you glad you're still standing. And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright. - Joan Bauer I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs. - Margaret Wise Brown You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. - Joseph Chamberlain O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard the morals of the masses, how smelly they make the great back-yard wetting after everyone that passes. - D H Lawrence

...why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death, like dogs with socks or chew-toys? 'Look at it this way...In a hundred years? - All new people. - Anne Lamott ...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. - Jack London O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me. - Nizar Qabbani ...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. - Lionel Shriver

The dogs bark because we gallop - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. - Frank James Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. - Karl Kraus Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan. - Margaret Mitchell We were, to quote the proverb, The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something.. - David Mitchell Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human...

The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings - and sometimes even their dogs and cats - do. But this did not mean that they were not communicating; merely that they were not communicating by talking. - Richard Adams Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness sake!" Gabriel put down his book an pointed a long finger at Phantom. "Sit", he commanded in a deep voice. Phantom looked sheepish and sank straight to the floor. Ivy scowled in frustration "I've been trying to get him to do that all day! What is it with dogs and male authority? - Alexandra Adornetto Do you know why I like dogs and not cats? Because when you're talking to dogs, they don't walk away in order to rim themselves. - Dani Alexander I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal. - Rita Rudner You must have had such a great childhood with a man like t...

I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs. - Margaret Wise Brown I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV. - Drew Curtis Did you just call me a hottie? And Jax isn't better looking than me. He's just famous." Amanda let out a loud cackle of laughter. "No brother dear, Jax Stone is hotness incarnate with or without the guitar and sexy as hell singing voice. You never stood a chance. He was what you call playing with the big dogs. This time you're definitely playing within your league. - Abbi Glines Th...

One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots. - Jennifer Armintrout Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot. - Konrad Lorenz I used to fear barking dogs. I would cringe and say to myself, 'Nice doggie please don't bite me I'll just go away,' but by that night I could look at them and think, I am your worst nightmare. Come closer and I will impale you upon my stick. The more I firmly visualized it, the more the dogs believed it. Now the tables had turned. Now the dogs feared me. - John Elder Robison

People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do. - Lee Child Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? - Paulo Coelho I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. - Tory Burch Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the...