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Retainer Quotes By Jeffrey Eugenides

Mr. Lisbon knew his parental and neighborly duty entailed putting the retainer in a Ziploc bag, calling the Kriegers, and telling them their expensive orthodontal device was in safe keeping. Acts like theses
simple, humane, conscientious, forgiving
held life together. Only a few days earlier he would have been able to perform them. But now he took the retainer and dropped it in the toiler. He pressed the handle. The retainer, jostled int he surge, disappeared down the porcelain throat, and, when waters abated, floated triumphantly, mockingly, out, Mr. Lisbon waited for the tank to refill and flushed again, but the same thing happened. The replica of the boy's mouth clung to the white slope. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Retainer Quotes By Laurell K. Hamilton

I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Retainer Quotes By Charles Dickens

At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied — Charles Dickens

Retainer Quotes By Lauren Groff

Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations. — Lauren Groff

Retainer Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer. — Henry Ward Beecher

Retainer Quotes By J Mascis

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer. — J Mascis

Retainer Quotes By Shaun Whiteside

His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer."
--from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes — Shaun Whiteside

Retainer Quotes By Gore Vidal

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. — Gore Vidal

Retainer Quotes By Judah P. Benjamin

First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher. — Judah P. Benjamin

Retainer Quotes By Ruthie Knox

whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup. — Ruthie Knox

Retainer Quotes By Andy Warhol

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working. — Andy Warhol

Retainer Quotes By Kreayshawn

I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause I'm paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it's missing, but it still works. — Kreayshawn

Retainer Quotes By J.R. Rain

We discussed my retainer, and learned that the women had all pooled their money together to hire me. So I told her that I was having a special. The first two weeks were free. She seemed relieved and put her checkbook back. Now, I thought as she shuffled off, I just need to find the perv in two weeks. — J.R. Rain

Retainer Quotes By Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Retainer Quotes By Kate Morton

A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it's a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all that has happened within its boundaries. — Kate Morton

Retainer Quotes By Scot D. Ryersson

For a summer of drug abuse on the island of Capri, she packed a wardrobe of black Morticia gowns, dyed her hair green, and paraded through the village streets with a crystal ball, followed by a retainer in gold body paint. — Scot D. Ryersson

Retainer Quotes By Joachim Du Bellay

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day. — Joachim Du Bellay

Retainer Quotes By Jeff Gannon

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work. — Jeff Gannon

Retainer Quotes By Ace Boggess

These friendly eyes, these lustful eyes, these hopeless, sad, dispirited eyes, these energetic amber eyes needing no escape, these serpent's eyes, cat's eyes, sorcerer's eyes, the eyes of future family men, funeral directors, and unsuspecting officers of the law, the mischievous eyes of plotters and planners, soon-to-be soldiers, or underworld attorneys on retainer, the eyes of maniacs and fanatics, hipsters and wallflowers, dreamers and the object of dreams, I gazed into them all and knew that they were human eyes, each pair offering insight toward a new tomorrow. — Ace Boggess

Retainer Quotes By Rex Stout

Parker, who was six feet four with nothing to protect his bones from exposure to the weather but tough-looking leathery skin, was so skeptical that at one point I thought he was going to pass, but he finally conceded that the move might be undertaken without undue risk to juridical virtue, to his own reputation, or to his client's life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. When all details had been settled and money passed - a dollar bill from Sarah to Parker as a token retainer - I got at the phone and dialed a number. — Rex Stout

Retainer Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent. — Henry David Thoreau

Retainer Quotes By Kevin Hearne

Silly cop, I don't need your help; I have a werewolf on retainer. — Kevin Hearne

Retainer Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client. — Abraham Lincoln