Leeches Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of… — Chris Brown
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches — Georges Cuvier
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form… — Ambrose Bierce
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis. — Dalton Trumbo
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to… — Lydia Lunch
Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of… — Tom Robbins
It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and… — Jay Severin
Here's a good gag if you go swimming in a swamp and when you come out you're all covered with leeches. Just say, "Hey, has… — Jack Handey
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 that that body… — Dave Sim
If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be… — James Packer
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, --… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard… — Michael Shannon
Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife. — Jamelia
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV… — Boris Johnson
I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an… — Nancy Reagan
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. — Margaret Thatcher
She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with… — George R. R. Martin
Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the… — William Strunk, Jr.

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