Leeches – Quotes

If leeches ate peaches

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

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric. Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think the more

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

Too many bugs and

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

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and

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

When you’re a writer,

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

I think one possibility

I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I’m always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I’m against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let’s say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being … Read more

With fame, you can’t

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 … Read more

It is possible to

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

Leeches should be kept

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