“Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.”

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

“I've always been mad about cats.”

“I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.”

“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”

“I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.”

“When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.”

“If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.”

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”

“There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.”

“We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.”

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”

“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.”

“Just watching my cats can make me happy.”

“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”

“Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.”

“Packing is my pet hate.”

“A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.”

“Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.”

“I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal.”