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- But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser
- Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,… — John Gardner
- It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane. — Unknown Author
- A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you… — Quentin Crisp
- Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon… — Josef Pieper
- When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom
- Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very… — Vera Nazarian
- I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the… — Barbara Kingsolver
- do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation — Vladimir Nabokov
- You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier