Quote by Kenny Powers

We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.

— Kelley Armstrong

A plague on both your houses.

— William Shakespeare

“A nurse’s aid threw the contents of a patient’s water glass out a window, the mass of water hitting the ground dislodging a pebble…

— David Foster Wallace

Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the…

— Dan Chaon

Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity.…

— Julie Foudy

Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally…

— Tibor Fischer

A rat crept softly through the vegetation Dragging its slimy belly on the bank While I was fishing in the dullcanal On a winter…

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital,…

— Patti Davis

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat…

— Carol Vorderman

“Something horrible had happened here, and had left it's residue behind. It seemed to rise from the bottom of the tiled pool and leak…

— Lani Woodland

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass…

— Charles Baudelaire

Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats,…

— Robert Browning