Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' was published while I was trying to work out how to write 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' and reading the story of that impaired amateur detective gave me the licence I needed to attempt one of my own.
— Emma Healey
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
— Emily Dickinson
It's funny to be playing a mom. I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog.
— Elizabeth Reaser
All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.
There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, 'There goes our beach house.'
— Elayne Boosler
Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.
— Eileen Myles
I remember the first roll of film I took. It was wintertime, and I wanted to shoot a roll of film to practice processing it, so I took an entire 36-exposure roll of my dog, Tippy.
— Edward Burtynsky
My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
— Edie Falco
Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.
— Earl Blumenauer
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dog is God spelled backward.
— Duane Chapman
I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.
— Drake Bell
I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.
— Dorothy Allison
The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
— Donna Shalala
It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
— Donald McCaig
My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!
— Emily VanCamp
I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
— Emily Blunt
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
— Elizabeth Pena
Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.
I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
— Eliza Dushku
My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
— Edward Thorndike
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
— Edward Abbey
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
— Eckhart Tolle
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
— E. W. Howe
You know how a dog and his owner start to look alike after a while? Well, that's like me and Billy.
— Dusty Hill
I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.
I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.
— Douglas Booth
My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.
— Doreen Cronin
In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant.
— Donna Brazile
That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.
The only routine I have is going for a run and a swim with the dog in the morning, between 8am and 9am - that is my head-clearing space. I am religious about holding on to that time: whatever happens, I don't want to know about it until after that.
— Emily Maitlis
If you've ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it's just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it's not.
— Ellen Ullman
As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.
People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.
— Elisabeth Shue
For most people, they only thing they know about bobsled is 'Cool Runnings.' Well, 'Cool Runnings' was, of course, four men in a bobsled, and four-man is considered the highlight of our sport. It's what everybody knows. It's what everybody watches. And it's the big dog of our sport.
— Elana Meyers
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
— Edward Hoagland
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
— Edith Wharton
Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
— Earl Derr Biggers
I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
— E. G. Marshall
Those deep, dog fights - I love that. That's why I fight.
— Dustin Poirier
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
— Drew Gilpin Faust
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
— Doug Larson
I've never been the top dog. I've always been the underdog. And that's why I relate so much to Utah, because we're underdogs, we're overlooked, kind of thought of as an afterthought.
— Donovan Mitchell
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
— Donatella Versace
