#pet

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. ↗

— Scott Adams

#cat #her #hours #kind #minutes

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#appetite #components #desire #does #ideal

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#begin #belief #conviction #deep #deep conviction

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. ↗

— Gary Allan

#ate #barbecue #compete #drank #each

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. ↗

— Tom Allen

#auto #auto industry #blunt #care #care costs

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#circles #clifford #considered #ever #greatest

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#lyrical #singing #trumpet

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. ↗