"the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection."

-- Nan Fairbrother

#Summer Quotes #Gun Quotes #Black Quotes

“Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing.”

Source : "Yvette Cooper: Why I'm Not Standing for Labour Leader – This Time". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2010.
“Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. â€œYou have the Fraggle Rock theme song as your ring tone,â€ he said, with a bemused look on his face. â€œYou are so weird.”

Source : Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.248, Bantam
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.”
“Shepardâ€™s Field is a good place for orphans. My class had a fundraiser for them and when we had a field trip to their orphanage, we met a lot of kids. What surprised me was they even had a computer room with lots of computers! After this amazing trip, I felt happy helping them. Maybe we could do another fundraiser again? I hope so!”
“The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.”
“War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.”
“The nice thing about Farscape is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.”

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