"Of course, in reality, being NIMH director is like herding a bunch of really brilliant cats, so I think the field moves forward without a whole lot of direction sometimes, and that's probably a good thing".
The day after I meet Memrise's COO Ben Whately, to get a preview of the language learning startup's new app, I'm out for a Saturday morning run when the image of a brilliant ginger cat with its head stuck down the toilet sails into my head.
A brilliant game of cat and mouse, seemingly designed to climax with a spectacular confrontation between the two leads.
Unbridled's stamina-laced DNA and the brilliant, precocious Storm Cat blood in Bodemeister is what make him who he is.
The writer Claude Roy, his friend, once likened him to a cat: "brilliant, but in that very brilliance, reserved, skittishly secret, courteously open yet hermetically closed".
Atwood has tackled this subject before – with, for instance, her portrayal of the shifting context and reputation of the artist protagonist of her brilliant 1988 novel Cat's Eye.
Following incubation, the gels were washed first with 1x PBS (pH 7.2) and then water, dried and stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue R250 (Cat# BO149, Sigma).
The Cheshire Cat, a brilliant bunraku puppet, deserves its round of applause.
Cats are brilliant stress relievers.
The brilliant film of Fritz the Cat – drawn from the Robert Crumb strips published in underground magazines Help! and Cavalier – picked at the scabs of the free-love movement, oozing cynicism about its narcissism and sense of privilege.
