Rats Quotations

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out.

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

Do not put this product in a big vat and drop rats into it from a cat-walk.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

That stupid Charlie Brown! He had the nerve to say I'm not perfect!" "So I suppose you hit him, huh?" "Rats! I knew I forgot something!

I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan

Seagulls: Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Nigel: Oh would you just shut up? You're rats with wings.

She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is and where her family is.

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, Beverly Hills 90210' and Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.

Here, we're feeding him once a week, but smaller portions - we don't want him just lying there sleeping it off. He gets six or seven 1- to 1 1/2-pound rats at a sitting, and he eats the entire rat in one bite. When you set out those rats you see how fast he really can run.

It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking

I think there will be radical changes. But I don't actually think that within the next 100 years the natural world will be reduced to rats and cockroaches, nor do I think that the plant world will be reduced to some kind of desert.

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

That wasn't right. That old trailer wasn't in no condition for anyone to be in, let alone a 99-year-old widow. I mean, there were rats in it, you know.

We hadn't seen any rats or evidence of rats until the school district started the eradication program, and then we started to see evidence of the rats moving across the fence line.

The only rats are the ones she brings aboard to play with.

The peer-reviewed science also shows that human beings do not react in the same way as rats or other animals to exposure to PFOA.

The rats know we are closing in on them,

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

Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

Rats live on no evil star

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

We killed eight more rats in the last week, bringing the total since we began to 34. The traps were reset and no new burrows were spotted.

We went beyond the perimeter where we saw rats and worked back to the garden. The theory was that we were herding rats back to the garden and didn't want them crossing Oak Manor Drive and going into the neighborhood. I think we took all of the precautions we could and had a lot of experts helping us deal with the situation,

We do not pick up the rats. It's up to the homeowners to pick up the rats and dispose of them properly.

There's actually a hole in the insulation where the rats are going in and out.

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

Rats are much more noticeable and destructive than mice.

And the muttering grew to a grumbling; / And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;/ And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.

They say some of these rats are so big that if they wanted to, they could pick a fight with a small dog.

Although the rats are small, the disease they are carrying is harmful and there is no cure except confrontation.

This is the most important tour in Ireland since the Rats because I've built up a body of songs, since we split, as a solo artist.

It's gasoline and propane and oil and sewage, dogs and cats and people and rats and nutria. The guys have seen dogs that have drowned that are still on a leash in the back yard, several cars with bodies in them and floating bodies.

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.

Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made to ensure that our technology rats on us?

It's important to emphasize that this work is not directly relevant to humans. First, rats have a universal drive to run. While some people may feel internally motivated to exercise, most do not and need additional incentives.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

Oh, I was humbled when I was at LA County sleeping in in a six-by-six cell with rats and roaches.

I know that the rats didn't spring into existence in our garden. Unfortunately we gave them a food supply and habitat that was attractive and overlooked the fact that they were there and multiplying,

In the survival studies conducted here, 80% of the rats with kidneys preserved in the HBS solution survived for more than seven days, whereas none of the same number of rats with kidneys preserved in the HTK solution survived more than four days.

In the future we'll have to change our name to the Rats or something,

Instead of starting the eradication on the outskirts and forcing the rats in they bombed the garden and moved them out of the area and forced them here. I understand the pressure they were under to take care of the rats and open the school but they didn't consider anything else besides their own problem.

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.

It has told the world we're watching, and as people watch and turn light on a situation, the rats scramble.

I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I don't want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, it's really hot, we're up to our knees in a river of (excrement). Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245-

I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

You might be a redneck if your birth announcement included the word rug rat.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.