"I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder."

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Source : Linda Howard (2012). “Shades Of Twilight”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

Linda Howard

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“I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.”
“It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.”

Source : Arthur Christiansen (1961). “Headlines all my life”
“I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I don't like salads: I like the strong food.”

Source : "Interview: Monica Seles" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
“I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.”
“There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in 2013 when we were deciding whether to file a brief in the first gay marriage case, the Perry against Hollingsworth case. That was a weighty decision about whether the United States government was going to come in and say that heightened scrutiny ought to apply and some state bans on same-sex marriage ought to be unconstitutional. And that was the one time in my tenure where I thought I ought not make this decision without talking to the president.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.259, Pan Macmillan

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