Jenny Downham Quotes

The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

I always want my options to be open.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I haven't been domesticated.

Very happily, I am very fortunate to be able to be where the wind takes me, where the work takes me, and where I want to be.

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

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.

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

I belong wherever I want to be.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.