"I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed."

-- Laurie Colwin

#Food Quotes #House Quotes #Pet Quotes

“If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.”
“He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.”
“In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.”
“I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.
“The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time they made decisions about what to do or how to behave that I had no idea were coming down the pike. As I would sit and try to inhabit a character, they themselves in my imagination would have quite a bit of free will.”
“I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.”

Source : L.J. Smith, Annette Pollert (2009). “Night World: The Ultimate Fan Guide”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.”

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