Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
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.
I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.
I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.
Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.
Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception
I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.
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.
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
Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
I live like a crazy old pack rat.
I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.