“Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.”
Will Stanton
“I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.”
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
James Matthew Barrie
“There are truths that are singularly shy and ticklish and cannot be caught except suddenly -- that must be surprised or left alone.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The obvious explanation is it's kind of a surprise thing, the sudden sort of visual arrival of human beings, and this was something we didn't expect at all.”
Joseph Garner
“The collars used on prisoners, the dogs and the cameras did not suddenly appear out of thin air, ... These acts of abuse were not the spontaneous actions of lower ranking enlisted personnel who lacked the proper supervision.”
Carl Levin