The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 1.
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall. – Joseph Barbera
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense. – Julie Burchill
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. – Jasper Fforde
It’s like being a gym rat, but you’re a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family. – Billy Crystal
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. – Boyle Roche
Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you’re gonna come to the conclusion that you’re a rat. – Alan Moore
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. – Dick Cavett
I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It’s got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it. – Dick Dale
I’m fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I’m a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car. – Marianne Wiggins
From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat. – Mary C. Jones
Back in the Rat Pack days, we’d take Frank’s plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We’d watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn’t ask for a better thing. – James Darren
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It’s more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. – Jimmy Reid
I’m a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me. – Kevin Brockmeier
Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It’s like someone with my exact taste in music has handed them all their old vinyl. – Romy Madley Croft