Squeezing The Lemon Quotes & Sayings

Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon. — Jonathan Gruber

At first it comes in small drops; that's how pee does, if somebody is watching, then it just won't come. I get more tiny drops, like I'm squeezing a lemon, so I close my eyes tight and concentrate.
Why are you taking so long? Forgiveness says, irritated-like, like she is somebody.
Leave her alone, is she peeing with your thing? Sbho says. Then when I'm beginning to think the pee is really not coming, it comes, so I turn around and give Forgiveness a talking eye that says Say something, uh-uh, uh-uh. — NoViolet Bulawayo

I'm good at figuring out how things work, but I don't know how this happened. — Nora Roberts

T smells in. Let the smell of hot tarmac in the summer remind you of a meal you ate the first time you landed in a hot place, when the ground smelled like it was melting. Let the smell of salt remind you of a paper basket of fried clams you ate once, squeezing them with lemon as you walked on a boardwalk. Let it reach your deeper interest. When you smell the sea, and remember the basket of hot fried clams, and the sound of skee-balls knocking against each other, let it help you love what food can do, which is to tie this moment to that one. Then something about the wind off the sea will have settled in your mind, and carried the fried clams and squeeze of a lemon with it. — Tamar Adler

Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can't do that — T.H. White

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions. — John Rawls

We are called to have faith, even in the darkest hour, and not grow faint or join with the cynics and the mockers." C.S. Lewis — Lara Giesbers

But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn.
"She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed.
"Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette. — Agatha Christie

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H Gass

It's the diary that makes the man. — George Grossmith

Twentieth-century physics, going full circle back to Heracleitus, postulates that all matter is in motion. In other words, there is no thing, only energy. — Camille Paglia

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky. — Famke Janssen

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out. — Marian McPartland

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. — Denis Diderot

We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere. — E.W. Kenyon

they always mentioned his name. For her, it was as if they were constantly squeezing lemon juice on an open wound. — Amanda Laneley