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«Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.»
«My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.»
«When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.»
«The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself»
«Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do'em all together, I guess.»
«The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.»
«It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an angel gets set on fire.»
«Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.»
«The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions»
«And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.»