The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs. — Avicenna Copy Share Image
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you” — O. S. Hickman Copy Share Image
“...man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like leeches.… — Unbearable Lightness of Being Copy Share Image
If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know… — James Packer Copy Share Image
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts.… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist, I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base." Fly… — Sheek Louch Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools,… — Jay Severin Copy Share Image
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure,… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
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