Plague Of Doves Quotes & Sayings

And he prayed that his family would be protected from the atom bomb disease called leukemia. — Eleanor Coerr

'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it. — Adam Davidson

And now we shall also die of blindness, I mean, we shall die of blindness and cancer, of blindness and tuberculosis, of blindness and AIDS, of blindness and heart attacks, illnesses may differ from one person to another but what is really killing us now is blindness — Jose Saramago

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while. — James Fenton

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Many of these ideas you like - wouldn't they scare most people? Its all very Isaac Asimov. I've thought about how to implement this. Speaking for myself, I never want to go to the dentist, I never want to go to the various doctors. So if someone told me to implant something in my body, as a futurist, I'd be down, but as a citizen I would think it is annoying. — Anonymous

When asked what profession they like least, most people will give the obvious answer: clowns. — Brian South

Don't you think you should retire again? The first retiral seems to have got mislaid. — Dorothy Dunnett