It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.
While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.
It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat. " "Did she just call you tree rat?
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.
Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.
Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.
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.
Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.
I was a gym rat and I always thought that was a part of my success.
Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.
Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
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.
I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.
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.