Leeches Quotes

• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Trying, Disease, Socialism

  "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

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• With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

  Chris Brown

  Being There, Fame, Persons

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• A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

  Horace

  Blood, Skins, Quitting

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• She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Love You, Knives, Sometimes

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• I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

  Nancy Reagan

  Thinking, People, Experts

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• Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

  Dave Barry

  God, Stupidity, Spiders

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• A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Turtles, Attachment, Long

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.572, Library of America

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• Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Country, Blow, Blood

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.248

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• If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

  Emilie Autumn

  Blood, Tea, Would Be

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• Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

  Dalton Trumbo

  May, Bankers, Four

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• I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

  Dave Sim

  Mean, Thinking, Feet

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• It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

  Boris Johnson

  Good Life, Writing, Media

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Discovery, Blood

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• I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Mirrors, Looks, Want

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• 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.

  Blood, Important, Trying

  "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter V: "An Approach to Style", 1918.

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• Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

  Avicenna

  Should

  The Canon Bk IV

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• The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, Insecurity, Population

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Kissing, Race, Squids

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee

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• The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

  George R. R. Martin

  Memories, Men, Years

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.359, Bantam

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• I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Black, Speed

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• Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

  Michael Shannon

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

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• I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist,
  I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base."
  Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers,
  Bumped into my high school teachers,
  They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers.
  Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features.
  I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

  Sheek Louch

  Teacher, Rap, School

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• 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

  Queens, Hate, Ideas

  Connie Willis (2011). “Impossible Things”, p.89, Spectra

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• It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.

  Jay Severin

  Country, School, America

  "Jay Severin’s Insanely Racist Rant" by Cenk Uygur, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2009.

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• You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

  Ambrose Bierce

  Years, Reptiles, Four

  "The Shadow on The Dial and Other Essays". Book by Ambrose Bierce, www.pub22.net. 1909.

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