Annino Inc Quotes & Sayings

And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs. — Barbra Annino

They asked me what I wanted to get out of this experience and I said me. — Barbra Annino

Chance stifled a grin, and all I could think was that this girl had to be related to me. Only women who were related to me annoyed me this much. — Barbra Annino

While I pulled out my Kindle and settled into a good murder mystery. — Barbra Annino

After I slid down the wall for the third time, breaking every single fingernail in the process, I finally figured out that Thor was hollering at me. I turned to see him standing in the bed of the truck. Which, of course, made much more sense, than pretending to be Spiderman.
It's a humbling moment when you realize your dog is smarter than you. — Barbra Annino

The timer dinged a few minutes later and Cinnamon sucked in her breath.
"You want me to check?" I asked.
"I'll do it."
I stood up and followed her into the bathroom.
Cinnamon gasped and said,"They're both positive!"
"What?" I grabbed the sticks from her hand and read them. I glared at her.
She chuckled. "You should have seen your face. — Barbra Annino

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. — Socrates

However ... " he said. "Now see, that's just a but with more meat on it. — Barbra Annino

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity. — Ulrich Beck

Smart people always choose comfort over luxury — Celso Cukierkorn

I jumped out of the way and Monique skidded across the floor like a drunk monkey on a skateboard and landed face-first in the puke. I hoped that popping sound was just the button on her halter top and not an imploded implant. That was a mess I wasn't about to clean up. — Barbra Annino

Men may sail the seas for a lifetime and seldom, if ever, come in contact with the nightmare monsters that inhabit the caves and cliffs of the ocean floor. Gazing down at the slightly muddy water, the men of The Unicorn saw a squirming mass of interwoven tentacles resembling enormous snakes, immensely thick and long and tapering at their free ends to the size of a man's thumb. It was a foul sight, an obscene growth from the dark places of the world, where incessant hunger is the driving force. At one place, down near the bulge of the hull, appeared a staring gorgon face with great lidless eyes and a huge parrot beak that moved slightly, opening and shutting as though it had just crunched and swallowed a meal of warm flesh.
("Fire In The Galley Stove") — William Outerson

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis

You're the most important person in my life," I whispered. "You're the only man I ever let in."
"But I'm not in, Stace. I'm standing on the porch in the pouring rain, waiting for you to open the door. I've been waiting ever since you left after graduation, ever since you came back last year. Even now, you've let me into your bed, but not into your heart. I'm still waiting. — Barbra Annino

It's my job to worry about you. I'm in love with you, Stacy. I have been ever since I can remember. It's always been you. — Barbra Annino

Are you nuts?" I kept my eyes on the dog when I said, "I prefer the term eccentric. — Barbra Annino

I am Zelda woman. Reader of the balls. — Barbra Annino

It is difficult to describe the moment when you realize the person you are is not the same as the person you must become to face the challenges before you. — Barbra Annino

You're very lucky ... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you. — N.K. Jemisin

Darkness is drowned by three lights; nature, knowledge, and truth. — Barbra Annino

His voice was chipper. Cinnamon hated chipper. She wrapped Chipper up in duct tape, pounded nails into it and used it to beat the crap out of Perky. — Barbra Annino

Monique, I realize that it's a short list of men in this town you haven't tied up, held down or sent to the free clinic, but why don't you just leave Leo alone. At least until he can update his vaccinations. — Barbra Annino

She must have been tired, because instead of jamming the whip down Monique's throat, she stood up and, in a very even tone, said, If you think you've seen me mad before, imagine what I could do to you when I've just lost everything. — Barbra Annino

Travel had seemed the key to the kingdom, back then. One dreamed of a life that would enable travel. Howard looked through his window at a lamp-post buried to its waist in show supporting two chained-up, frozen bikes, identifiable only by the tips of their handlebars. He imagined waking up this morning and digging his bike out of the snow and riding to a proper job, the kind Belseys had had for generations, and found he couldn't imagine it. This interested Howard, for a moment: the idea that he could no longer gauge the luxuries of his own life. — Zadie Smith

That is the casualty of life in a small town. People scoop into your business, then hand out cones to anyone who asks for a lick. — Barbra Annino

I realized that with Chance and me, there were no secrets. Or at least none that I could otherwise explain.
I said, "I trust you more than I trust my own family, you know that?"
"Well, they don't set the bar real high." He smiled at me, a silly, playful smile. The kind of smile shared by people with a lot of history. — Barbra Annino

My fault? How the hell is this"
I waved my arm across the table
my fault?"
"You know we don't believe in hell, so stop using that word in our presence," Bridie said.
"Fine. How in fucked-up fairyland is this my fault? — Barbra Annino

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness. — Al-Ghazali

I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate. — Dana Hussein

There is nothing more special than a love of a child, and I love the fact I am an auntie. — Julia Sawalha

But I'm not one to read a book backwards. — Barbra Annino

The snow was knee-deep, my leg hurt, and my sweats were soaked, but I was hopped up on painkillers and a huge dose of pissed off, so I didn't care. — Barbra Annino

Let's get something straight. There is nothing wrong with you. Everyone has his or her quirks. Yours is just affecting your life in a negative way so we have to find an alternative solution to this particular quirk. — Barbra Annino

She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies. — A.F. Stewart

I thought a shit storm was coming, and I had no umbrella. — Barbra Annino

May I be excused, or would you like my assistance toweling off?" Ethan asked. "My grandmother is expecting me, and she hates when I'm late, although I'm willing to risk the wrath if you'd like to continue this conversation. — Barbra Annino

Leo turned to me, his upper lip curved in that way it does when he's confused. "What exactly is your problem? You broke it off with me, remember?"
The bitch wasn't backing down. Now she had control of my hands. She wagged a finger at Leo. "And you just couldn't wait to climb aboard that silicone-stuffed herpes ride, could you? — Barbra Annino

I drank in the scene around me. Some people were directing traffic, some were throwing buckets full of water on the flames (the whole bucket too, not just the contents), some were snapping photos and one guy, I recognized as a regular of the Black Opal, Scully, was clutching a stool and crying.
It was like the bleacher seats at a Cubs game when the beer gets cut off ... — Barbra Annino