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Hounds follow those who feed them. -- Otto von Bismarck
People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life. -- Kate Bush
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds. -- Norman Jewison
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. -- Thomas Wolfe
["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance. -- Kate Bush
And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire. -- Steven Erikson
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock. -- Aldous Huxley
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound. -- Thomas More
Some people call me a publicity hound. -- Joe Arpaio
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both. -- Robert Smith Surtees
A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. -- Eugene Atget
Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen -- May Swenson
Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace -- Irene Dunne
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. -- Henry Fielding
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face. -- George R. R. Martin
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. -- Neil Young
Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats! -- Kurt Vonnegut
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it! -- Nikita Khrushchev
I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things. -- Joan Fontaine
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. -- Desiderius Erasmus
When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew... -- William Shakespeare
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool. -- Diane Ackerman
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly. -- Thomas Malory
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. -- Seth Godin
Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time. -- Joan Baez
I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it. -- Austan Goolsbee
I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover. -- Julie Klausner
In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback. -- Christina Baker Kline
I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star. -- Jason Mewes
Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase. -- Saint-John Perse
We are brunch hounds. We also like movie dates. There's a lot of diners, a lot of movies. We're 'simple pleasures' people. It doesn't have to be crazy. It could be a 'Law and Order' marathon on the couch, or it could be dinner or a show. We like to mix it up. -- Rob McClure
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own. -- Robert A. Heinlein
And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels. -- William Morley Punshon
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. -- Plautus
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! -- Ezra Pound
Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! -- Ezra Pound
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell? -- Sky Ferreira
Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds -- M.F. Moonzajer
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered. -- Franz Grillparzer
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. -- Timothy B. Tyson
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. -- C. S. Lewis
I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue. -- Anton Chekhov
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses. -- David Livingstone
The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them. -- Billy Graham
I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love. -- Arthur Bradford
Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood. And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell. -- Michael Jackson

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