#bites

Top Gun,” I whispered to Lindsey. We’d started pointing out Luc’s ubiquitous pop culture references, having decided that because he cut his fangs in the Wild West, he’d been entranced by movies and television. You know, because living in a society of magically enhanced vampires didn’t require enough willing suspension of disbelief. -Merit in Chloe Neill’s Friday Night Bites ↗

— Chloe Neill

#friday-night-bites #vampire #movies

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#bites #get #hard #i #i think

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#agenda #arnold #bites #could #felt

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here. ↗

— Gray Davis

#apple #approach #bites #buying #charged

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#bites #damn #just #rest #write

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them. ↗

— Laura Innes

#bites #buried #character #deeply #done

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#genius #like #look #make #media

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. ↗

— Leon Kass

#bites #forced #i #like #reduce

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#spider-bites #spiders #funny