The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.
The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.
A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.
. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it
When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
I wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you wile the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.
I wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you while the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
When someone asks, Dogs or cats? I usually say, For what, dinner?
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.
My pants pant like a dog, and they drool at the zippered mouth. When I go for a walk, they go for a walk. Now, if only they could play fetch.
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.
Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.
I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.
Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
