Divelbiss Corporation Quotes & Sayings

Then there was a hard brown lozenge called the Tonsil Tickler. The Tonsil Tickler tasted and smelled very strongly of chloroform. We had not the slightest doubt that these things were saturated in the dreaded anaesthetic which, as Thwaites had many times pointed out to us, could put you to sleep for hours at a stretch. "If my father has to saw off somebody's leg," he said, "he pours chloroform on to a pad and the person sniffs it and goes to sleep and my father saws his leg off without him even feeling it."
"But why do they put it into sweets and sell them to us?" we asked him. You might think a question like this would have baffled Thwaites. But Thwaites was never baffled.
"My father says Tonsil Ticklers were invented for dangerous prisoners in jail," he said. "They give them one with each meal and the chloroform makes them sleepy and stops them rioting."
"Yes," we said, "but why sell them to children?"
"It's a plot," Thwaites said. "A grown-up plot to keep us quiet. — Roald Dahl

When you join teams that changes lives, yours will be the first. — Todd Stocker

We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out. — Josh Fox

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. — Edna O'Brien

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles

Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn't repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues's full-blown adulthood will be. — Laura Wiess

We make our fortunes and we call them fate. — Benjamin Disraeli

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men. — Rodney Stark

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education. — Robert Draper

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce. — Tobe Hooper

Hank was walking barefoot up the dock, carrying his sweatshirt over a freckled shoulder and his boots clamped between thumb and finger of that maimed hand. Lee marveled at the scamper of small muscles across the narrow white back, at the swing of the arms and the lift of the neck. Did it take that much muscle just to walk, or was Hank showing off his manly development? Every moment constituted open aggression against the very air through which Hank passed. He doesn't just breathe, Lee decided, listening to Hank's broken-nosed puffing, he gobbles the oxygen. He doesn't just walk; he consumes distance step by carnivorous step. Open aggression is what it is all right, he concluded.
Yet couldn't help but notice the way those shoulders seemed to savor the swing of the arms, or the way those feel relished the feel of the dock. These people ... am I one of these people? — Ken Kesey

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes

How can you expect to write if you can't cry....Ling — Shirley Wine