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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter

To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works. — Dashiell Hammett

When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them. — Frederick Lenz

I'm little but I'm old, he said. — Anonymous

The government serves the people - not vice-versa. — Joe Wilson

The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder. — Leopold II Of Belgium

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. — Herman Melville

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty. — Dakota Fanning

I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo. — George W. Bush

America is like a roomy cage; just enough choice-space where the animal doesn't go wild and feels free. — Bryant McGill

I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it. Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) — Dashiell Hammett