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  • But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality

    Real   Class   Rats  
    Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
  • I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket.

    Car   Buckets   Yorkshire  
  • It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

    Funny   Running   Dog  
  • A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

    Running   Rabbits   Bulls  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
  • I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.

    Dog   Rama   Wonderful  
  • Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.

    Dog   White   Pet  
  • Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen’s self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons.

    Self   Important   Reason  
    Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
  • Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.

    Dog   Cat   Dark  
  • (Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.

    Running   Dog   Fun  
  • The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.

    Dog   Mistake   Thinking  
    ""Biggest Loser" host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.
  • I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

    Dog   Witty   Religious  
  • Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

    Dog   Laughter   Laughing  
    Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.34, Transaction Publishers
  • I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

    Dog   Two   Yorkshire  
    "Christina Milian music maven". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.
  • At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.

    Dog   Home   Blue  
  • I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.

    Dog   Names   Car  
    "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Krysten Ritter". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. March 27, 2012.
  • Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

    Running   Feet   Ancient  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.154, Random House
  • A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

    Dog   Silly   Race  
  • Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

    Dog   Nature   Animal  
  • At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

    Home   Genius   Lines  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

    Letting Go   Dog   Stress  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

  • We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

    Dog   Thinking   Color  
    "Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe". Book by Gene Wolfe, 2007.
  • Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

    Drawing   Rooms   Honest  
    Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.106
  • I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.

    Dog   Giants   Poodles  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

    Politics   Economy   Torn  
    George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.5, M.E. Sharpe
  • I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

    Air   Years   People  
    "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.
  • In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

    Dog   Nature   Silly  
    Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated
  • He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

    Dog   Heart   Animal  
  • Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

    Dog   Sight   Cynical  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407
  • Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

    Funny   Dog   Four  
    Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.221, Diderot Publishing
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