The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.
You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows. '
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.
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.
A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country. ' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.
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.
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
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.
I was a huge fan of Lance Armstrong. The only way that they caught him using doping was through a criminal investigation where they got all of his teammates who did the exact same thing that he did and got away with it to rat him out in exchange for their own immunity. The byproduct of that was that he had passed 500 anti-doping controls clean. So I'm going, "Wait, wait, wait. It's not, 'What's wrong with Lance Armstrong?' What's wrong with this system that was thoroughly ineffective to catch someone cheating for the last 15 years?"
Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I'll have forgotten about it and will finally have said heart attack when I assume a rat shat in there.
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.
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.
the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!