Horace Quotes

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

I tend to latch on to things and not let go.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.

I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you .. and I'm about to taste blood.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Hold on to 16 as long as you can.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

She's a sort of human vampire-bat

You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.