If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!
I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.
I don't have any leeches on my speed dial. " — Jacob Black
The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.
I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches. " So I was working against my actual abilities.
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.
Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.
Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.
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.
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 life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
Politicians are leeches, mostly.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
