"Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts." "Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction."

-- Maria V. Snyder

#Cutting Quotes #Knives Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.”
“We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.”
“You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that way once, using the edge of the wooden sword." "I hadn't realized the Thieves of Eddis were so warlike." "They aren't, mostly. But like all men, Teleus, I have two grandfathers." Teleus rolled his eyes to look up at him, and the king said, "One of mine was Eddis." "Ah," said Teleus. "Ah, indeed," said the king.”
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.”

Source : "Aubrey de Grey: We don't have to get sick as we get older". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.
“Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.”
“The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.”
“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”

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