Chloroformed Quotes & Sayings

I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it. — Agatha Christie

It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God. — R.T. Kendall

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti

He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. — Eric Ries

For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face. — H.P. Lovecraft

Not longevity. Not peace. Not some chloroformed happiness. Not tranquility. They are all such common goals ... No. I want audacity. High color. Total independence. — Erika Robuck

Though these all qualify as deceptions in Boswall's mind, they are not all necessarily bad. Boswall believes it's up to individual filmmakers to decide where to draw the line
but a warns that audiences might be surprised to know where filmmakers have been drawing it recently. — Chris Palmer

I need you to be serious right now."
"Probably you shouldn't have drugged me, then."
She rolls her eyes and waves in dismissal. "It was chloroform. You'll be fine."
"And Rayna?"
She knows what I'm asking, and she nods. "She should be waking up right about now." Mom sits back in her chair. "That girl has the personality of a mako shark."
"Says the nut job who chloroformed her own daughter."
She sighs. "One day you'll understand why I did that. Today is obviously not that day."
"No, no, no," I say, palming the air with the universal "don't even" sign. "You don't get to play the responsible parent card. Let's not forget the little matter of the last eighteen-freaking-years, Nalia." There. I said it. This conversation is finally going to happen. — Anna Banks

You don't have to watch many wildlife documentaries to know that the herd doesn't accept the lone straggler. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations. — Gerhard Roth

Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move. — Celia Thaxter

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy. — Annie Dillard

Alas, the penis is such a ridiculous petitioner. It is so unreliable, though everything depends on it - the world is balanced on it like a ball on a seal's nose. It is so easily teased, insulted, betrayed, abandoned; yet it must pretend to be invulnerable, a weapon which confers magical powers upon its possessor; consequently this muscleless inchworm must try to swagger through temples and pull apart thighs like the hairiest Samson, the mightiest ram. — William H Gass

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it! — Patrick Duffy

A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. — James S.A. Corey

the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like. — Sam Miller

I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle — Iain M. Banks