Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.
My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.
Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?” “He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you’re interested
Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.
I went through puberty really early, when I was 11. It makes you feel weird - you know, like your uncle is now hugging you a little bit longer than he used to. I think we all go through wanting to go back - you're not sure you're ready for that body.
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same.
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.
[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.
I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.
We cannot reform the world. . . . Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
I'm not an Uncle Tom. . . . I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle.
Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan. ” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.
