Famous Quotes

"In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad."

Rob Sheffield on Pet

More quotes about Pet

• "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

  Abraham Lincoln on Pet

• "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

  Winston Churchill on Pet

• "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Pet

• "Time spent with cats is never wasted."

  Sigmund Freud on Pet

• "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."

  Josh Billings on Pet

More quotes by Rob Sheffield

• "It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?"

• "You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude."

• "Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'"

• "Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids."

• "'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends."