"Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!"

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Source : Georgette Heyer (2011). “Black Sheep”, p.43, Random House

Georgette Heyer

#Talking Quotes #Eels Quotes #Waste Quotes

“Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.”
“All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.”
“I just feel like I'm a part of a really cool group of ladies, really good actresses. And each of them kind of does it in their own way, but the character itself is such a great, strong lady that I like that they keep reinventing her.”
“As far as we can reach, He Who Is, and God, are the special names of His Essence; and of these especially He Who Is, not only because when He spoke to Moses in the mount, and Moses asked what His Name was, this was what He called Himself, bidding him say to the people 'I Am has sent me' (Ex. 3:14), but also because we find that this Name is the more strictly appropriate.”
“You can take a kid out of RosengÃ¥rd, but you can never take RosengÃ¥rd out of that kid”
“If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.”
“My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.”
“Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.”

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