Quotes by Eels Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. Alain de Botton eels style mind How index-learning turns no student pale, Alexander Pope eels library science POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. Ambrose Bierce agitation eels mistake They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics. Anne Carson eels tanks two Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. Arthur Golden eels sweat doctors Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. Arthur Schopenhauer eels snakes mean It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels. Baron d'Holbach eels creating men Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. Baron d'Holbach eels doubt order Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell Bertrand Russell eels hell love-is I have the backbone of an eel. Betty White eels backbone Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. C. S. Lewis eels frogs pie The apartments are made for eels. Cary Fukunaga apartment eels made I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. Edith Sitwell eels women people I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. Edith Sitwell catfish eels pool Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you! Georgette Heyer eels waste talking It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. Graham Joyce eels christian wings I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts. Jack Johnson eels cold thinking Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. James de la Vega eels business thinking My hovercraft is full of eels. John Cleese hovercrafts eels I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide! Kim Harrison eels names running 12»