Top 35 Hound Quotes

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

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.

‘Hound Dog’ took like twelve minutes. That’s not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. ‘Kansas City’ was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

I’m not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don’t know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George ‘Hound Dog’ Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.

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.

The Court Yard Hounds aren’t a threat to the Dixie Chicks.

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and ‘beauty sleep’ didn’t exist anymore!

I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we’re continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.

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.

‘Hound Dog’ is a really short record, and most singles didn’t last three minutes.

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, ‘Horse & Hound’ magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

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.

Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.

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.

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.

My stepfather was a brilliant and funny psychiatrist but he was a hound dog. He just didn’t know how to be faithful.

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.

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that’s what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I’ve authored such children’s books as the ‘Dumpy the Dump Truck’ series, ‘Dragon: Hound of Honor,’ ‘The Great American Mousical,’ ‘Simeon’s Gift’ and ‘Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child.’

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really – my name, McCann, the translation isn’t ‘Son of Ann’… It comes from ‘Canis’ – as in ‘canine’ – as in ‘dog!’ My name – Rory McCann – means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound.

I’m kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

I’m not a publicity hound, I hope.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

I am a passionate opponent of fox hunting because the fox runs in fear of its life over a prolonged period, hearing the hounds getting closer and closer. Barbarous does not even begin to describe such a sport.

You know, it is a funny thing, but ‘The Flintstones’ was bought by ABC and the sponsors when they discovered adults were watching and enjoying ‘Huck Hound’ and ‘Quick Draw McGraw.’

Everyone who worked on ‘The Fox and the Hound’ is important. We’re all lucky to be in a business that we love.

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.

Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients.

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.

Maybe I’m just as bad as my critics who hound me.

I think I’d want Tommen’to fight the Hound! And the Mountain! The Hound and the Mountain on one side, and Tommen on the other side. That would be so sick. Tommen would smash it!

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!

I think anybody who really knows me knows I’m not a media hound and knows that I’m really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in.