Leechlike Quotes & Sayings

The Babel fish is small, yellow, leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. — Douglas Adams

Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go. — Barack Obama

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. — Vincent Van Gogh

I'm never going to make any friends here," Georgia whined. "Come on, honey. I know it's a big adjustment, but you've got to stay positive," Mom said. "Okay," Georgia said. "I'm positive I'm never going to make any friends here. — James Patterson

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of. — Gary Vaynerchuk

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen. — Louis Sachar

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. — Aaron Eckhart

I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love. — Charles Eisenstein

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile. — Jay Garner

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it. — Ryan Robbins

brought bone after bone to a skeleton expert until she told me that I was making her so miserable that I should never return, — Lemony Snicket

Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon. — Jeff Galloway

A nation is not conquered,
Until the hearts of it's women
Are on the ground.
then it is done, no matter
How brave it's warriors,
Or how strong it's weapons. — Rosemary Agonito