Leverage Hardison Quotes & Sayings

They gave the world some of its finest heroes. Saving them's the least we can do. — Matt Forbeck

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice ... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other. — William C. Bryant

I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches. — Andre Leon Talley

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. — Sonia Rykiel

Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured.
"Always," Parker said. — Greg Cox

He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself."
"How about I express you out the nearest window? — Greg Cox

Being sick never worked as an excuse at the asparagus plantation at Osterburg. For example, the pregnant girl wanted to go home. She cried and pleaded. The doctor declared her fit for work. She willfully threw up in the fields every morning. An official from the work department, stuffed into his Nazi uniform, finally gave her permission to leave, but not for home - for Poland. — Edith Hahn Beer

Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you. — Tony Robbins

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It's to create more leaders. — Ralph Nader

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch. — Shawn Ryan

An honest hand and a true heart may hew amiss; and the harm may be harder to bear than the work of a foe. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything."
"Says the man who'd just punch the haystack. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires. — Helen Simonson

Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."
"I see," Nate said. "Should we be worried? — Greg Cox

If you want to buy my wares
Follow me and climb the stairs ...
Love for sale. — Cole Porter

"Easy" is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs. — Jason Fried

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. — Augustus Hare

Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is. — Fausto Cercignani

Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground? That held no interest for him. — Matt Forbeck

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus. — Dean Young

Age of the geek, baby! — Keith R.A. DeCandido