“Oh, I was humbled when I was at LA County sleeping in in a six-by-six cell with rats and roaches.”
Rick James
“I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.”
David Attenborough
“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.”
Robbie Fowler
“Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.”
Garrison Keillor
“We prevented both some brain and some behavioral changes that one normally sees in these rats when they hit 15 months of age.”
Jim Joseph
“We've been sleeping on the . . . ground like rats. I say burn this whole . . . city down.”
Michael Levy
“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
W. C. Fields