I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"
Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.
As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.
I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.
Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.
I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.
Having both a pet and a book. . . absolute heaven.
I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
My sister wanted a cat for a pet. . . I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.
I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.
My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk.
Love is for friends & pets. . . and family. . . only if they really love you as unconditionally as your friends and pets.