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Me and the folks who buy my food are like the Indians -- we just want to opt out. That's all the Indians ever wanted -- to keep their tepees, to give their kids herbs instead of patent medicines and leeches. They didn't care if there was a Washington, D.C., or a Custer or a USDA; just leave us alone. But the Western mind can't bear an opt-out option. We're going to have to refight the Battle of the Little Big Horn to preserve the right to opt out, or your grandchildren and mine will have... Michael Pollan
Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their customers with leeches and passed on the information to alarmed small boys that self-abuse leads to blindness. John Mortimer
Aldous Huxley quote: "The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's..."
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. Aldous Huxley
She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her. George R. R. Martin
Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then. William Strunk, Jr.
When the leeches have sucked enough blood, one simply has to sprinkle some salt on their backs and they fall off? But you, my friend, how can I get rid of you? Your despairing cousin Heinrich Heine
The hydrangeas are clipped for the winter and there is a gardener with rum on his breath (and odd socks on his feet) who offers to show you the scars on his back, the droppings of a wallaby, the scratchings of a bandicoot or a leech which he will pull inside out with the aid of a twig- "T'only way to kill'un, missus. Peter Carey
There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun. Arthur C. Clarke
George R. R. Martin quote: "The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed..."
The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. George R. R. Martin
...we never cease hoping--and thus did our Judge condemn us to suffer in saecula.' Ferrante asked: 'But what is it that you hope for?' You might as well ask what you will hope for yourself. ...You will hope that a wisp of wind, the slightest swell of the tide, the arrival of a single hungry leech, can return us, atom by atom, to the great Void of the Universe, where we would somehow again participate in the cycle of life. Umberto Eco
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I don't have any leeches on my speed dial."? Jacob Black"
I don't have any leeches on my speed dial."? Jacob Black Stephenie Meyer
Emilie Autumn quote: "If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be..."
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! Emilie Autumn
When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you. Connie Willis
My lord said, amongst other things, that he did not propose to burden the doctor with the details of his genealogy. He consigned the doctor and all his works, severally and comprehensively described, to hell, and finished up his epic speech by a pungent and Rabelaisian criticism of the whole race of leeches. Georgette Heyer
Margaret Thatcher quote: "To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to..."
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. Margaret Thatcher

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