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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -- Monica Edwards
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer. -- Kathi Appelt
Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed. -- Jack Kerouac
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. -- Mark Twain
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him. -- Kathleen Hanna
Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life. -- Joanne Harris
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content. -- Alice Duer Miller
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. -- Helen Rowland
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. -- Linus Torvalds
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast. -- May Sarton
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat. -- Agnes Repplier
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there. -- Harold Monro
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness. -- Hallgrímur Helgason
When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. -- Barbara La Marr
And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling. -- Louise Rennison
In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring. -- Nellie L. McClung
The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. -- Kenneth Grahame
The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire. -- Konrad Lorenz
To err is human, to purr is feline. -- Robert Byrne
Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child,and wonder as she lies, a fur ring,curled upon my lap, unstirring -- is it me or Tibbles purring? -- Ian Serraillier
No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed. -- Paul Gallico
Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are having a jamboree behind the wainscot. -- L.M. Montgomery
[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society... -- Theophile Gautier
A low, purring rumble reverberated in his chest, his voice tight when he spoke. "Ah, hell, You're naked. -- Eden Ashe
He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core. -- Gena Showalter
But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept. -- Neil Gaiman
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness. -- Hallgrímur Helgason
JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself." Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas." Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly. -- Cassandra Clare
I simply canÂ´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course. -- Mark Twain
I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet." R.Rose when asked how she deals with writer's block. -- R. Rose

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