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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?


Bette Midler

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UNKNOWN No one pays me to be nice.
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CLARA KENSIE My eyes are open now and can never be closed.
JASMINE ANGELL If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
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JEFF DUNHAM I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
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CANDICE BERGEN You can be very wild and still be very wise.
YOKO ONO You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats
PROVERB She was sitting right there, staring back at me. She looked very happy.
ANDREW THOMPSON Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. Sh...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur."
ERIN HUNTER People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
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And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometim...
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GERTRUDE STEIN People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
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SCOTT ROEBEN I had always wondered why people closed their eyes when they kissed. Now I knew: they can't help it....
ELISE ALLEN Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will<...
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LORI SNELL Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be
RICHARD J. NEEDHAM Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.
KAT DENNINGS Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO Brambleclaw turned to Squirrelflight first. “Will you fight beside me?”
Their eyes met for ...
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1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT It doesn't seem like it's going to be all that robust. But maybe we found a nice level.
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MORRISSEY She could get lost staring into the kaleidoscope of unfathomable lifetimes swirling in a human iris....
TAOIST ELF A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however mu...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
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MARTIN ALLEN They can build half pipes and jumps and they can practice their tricks sort of indefinitely. So it w...
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His expression turned q...
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BETTE DAVIS I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but s...
BETTE PAGE I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex t...
BETTE DAVIS Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all...
BETTE DAVIS If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
BETTE DAVIS I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd...
BETTE DAVIS If my guests do not like it here, I suggest they accompany you to the nursery... where I am sure you...
BETTE DAVIS Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've take...
BETTE DAVIS Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than ...
BETTE DAVIS "Oh, I'm rather fond of him that way. It shows that deep down he's a fake." -on her graying 1935 Osc...
BETTE DAVIS Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We nev...
BETTE DAVIS If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was prob...
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