You can go from having all your stuff together and really feeling good about yourself to really figuring you can't run a lick.
Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that. '
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end. . . I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.
Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.
I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
That demon woman you were lounging with on the divan,” said Will. “Would you call her a friend, or more of a business associate?” Benedict’s dark eyes hardened. “Insolent puppy—” “Oh, I’d say she was a friend,” said Tessa. “One doesn’t usually let one’s business associates lick one’s face. Although I could be wrong. What do I know about these things? I’m only a silly woman.
I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.
Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world. " "Who told you this?" His eyes widen. "A fearsome creature with a head full of snakes!" "You musn't fear her," I say, taking the man's hand and leading his toward the river. "She's as tame as a pussycat. She'd probably lick your hand given the chance. " "Didn't seem harmless," he whispers, shuddering. "Yes, well, things are not always as they appear, sir, and we must learn to judge for ourselves.
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.
I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.
What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer. " "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness. . . something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.
If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.
Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like "aaaaa. . . . beeeee. . . . ceeee.
Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.
