AtomicQuote

Paul Gallico Quote

No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

Paul Gallico

No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

Tags: cats, paul gallico, purr, purring

Related Quotes

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.

Eddie Izzard

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.

Tags: food, cats, pet, you

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

Gillian Flynn

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

Tags: alcoholic, alone, binging, cat, cats, drinking, empty your head, ignorance, ignoring, insomnia

There are no ordinary cats.

Colette

There are no ordinary cats.

Tags: cats

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Tags: authors, books, cats

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

Barbara Holland

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

Tags: cat, cat language, cats, language

Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.

Anthony Doerr

Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.

Tags: anthony doerr, cats, howling, ruins

A breeze stirred Dovewing's pelt, as is someone had walked past. She lifted her head an saw two figures standing just beyond her Clanmates. One was a badger with a narrow, striped face, the other a gr...

Erin Hunter

A breeze stirred Dovewing's pelt, as is someone had walked past. She lifted her head an saw two figures standing just beyond her Clanmates. One was a badger with a narrow, striped face, the other a gr...

Tags: cats, erin hunter, meaw, sadness, warriors

Cat love is genuine, because it's 10 percent devotion and 90 percent frustration and betrayal. - 67 REASONS WHY CATS ARE BETTER THAN DOGS

Jack Shepard

Cat love is genuine, because it's 10 percent devotion and 90 percent frustration and betrayal. - 67 REASONS WHY CATS ARE BETTER THAN DOGS

Tags: cats, dogs, humor

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplier

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Tags: pet, friends, cats, impossible

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple...

Mark Twain

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple...

Tags: cats, dogs, doves, foxes, geese, man, monkeys, reasoning, religion, squirrels
About Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his most critically successful book, for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation, and for four novels about the beloved character of Mrs. Harris.