“Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Trickster, love will be the end of you.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute."
"Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“I didn't do it,' he insisted.
'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.
'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Of course, the Big Bad Wolf does yoga, Sabrina thought. Why did I even bother to ask?”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Trickster,” he said, sniffing the boy. “Love will be the end of you.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Wendell turned to the chalkboard and wrote I AM A WORTHLESS FAT-BODY.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“The girl laughed. “I’m Bella,” she said.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and pressed it on the wall. The handprint was bright red.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Once she was out of her clothes and into a warm robe, she headed back downstairs, passing the bathroom door, where she could hear Daphne begging Elvis to get into the tub with her. A tremendous splash told Sabrina that the little girl had gotten her wish.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Hanging upside down above them was a fat, frog-faced creature. Its head and feet were amphibious, with slimy, bumpy skin and a puffed, bulbous pouch under its lower lip, but it had the arms, legs, and body of a human being. It was the creature’s long sticky green tongue”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“LEPRECHAUN GOLD; FLOOR PLANS FOR GINGERBREAD HOUSES; TALKING FISH; GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE; TIK-TOK MEN;”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“opened the cover and saw a crude drawing of a giant kitten chewing on several screaming farmers”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“In most towns, the police do not rely on an old woman, two kids, and a sleepy dog to solve crimes,”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“Even Puck, who could usually be counted on to fart during dinner, was oddly quiet.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Unusual Suspects
“In an industry based on analyzing raw data, Gregory was defiantly a gut man. He was also an advocate of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which used Jungian psychological principles to identify people as having one of sixteen distinct personality types. (A typical question was, “Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or on your own inner world?”) Gregory used Myers-Briggs results to help make personnel decisions. It was his conviction that individual expertise was overrated; if you had smart, talented people, you could plug them into any role, as sheer native talent and brains trumped experience. Gregory seemed to revel in moving people around, playing chess with their careers.”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, quote from Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
“Can you stand a little closer?"
"Hmm?"
"You smell good. I like to smell you.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Return of Rafe MacKade
“watched as Harkness sat down and had a microphone clipped to his lapel. Hi Barker was flitting about, putting his guests at ease; Cary was given a folding chair just out of camera range. The whole group was no more than twelve feet from where Stone stood. “You’re sure they can’t see us?” he asked the director. “Not a chance,” Jimmy replied. “I checked it out earlier.” Two other people, a man and a young woman, came into the control room now and took seats on either side of Jimmy, paying no attention to Stone and Dino. “Ten minutes,” the woman said, looking up at a clock above the row of monitors. Stone watched the monitors as”
― Stuart Woods, quote from New York Dead
“The most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis is that, in a world with nuclear weapons, a classic military victory is an illusion. Communism was not defeated militarily; it was defeated economically, culturally, and ideologically. Khrushchev’s successors were unable to provide their own people with a basic level of material prosperity and spiritual fulfillment. They lost the war of ideas. In the end, as I have argued in Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, communism defeated itself.”
― Michael Dobbs, quote from One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from Flotsam
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