To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Rita: Where were you? Phil: [referring to Ned] It was awful. A giant leech got me.
When you've only got two choices, and you don't like either of them, make a third choice.
I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
Charlie Allnut: One thing in the world I hate: leeches. Filthy little devils.
Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either acquired your soul or devoured all your joyful emotions.
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!
Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.
In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.
All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.
Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.
And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their lif...
You twitch as the darkness moves in and out of you. It crawls up your spine and nestles in your brain like an evil thought from out of nowhere, burying itself in your psyche like a starving leech looking for a vein.
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how t...
'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, th...
The more leeches there are affixed to a host, the less resources there are to siphon from said hosts, per parasite. The ability to only absorb energy, without the ability or desire to reproduce it in a productive manner, is a dangerous, unsustainable...
Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love--with the sun.
