Mr Limpet Quotes

#1. I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won't seem creaky. It won't come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

Judd Apatow

#2. Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.

Auliq Ice

#3. I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum

Mervyn Peake

#4. It was like a bit of flypaper stuck to your finger that you couldn't shake off. The bloody thing clung to life like a limpet.

Alan Bradley

#5. Try to prise a limpet away from its rock and it will cling all the harder.

Jeremy Holmes

#6. As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

Michael Dirda

#7. In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

Greg Mortenson

#8. How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

Janet Fitch

#9. You do not understand your job. You are not running an election, you are not winning wealth. You are being taken care of. But you cannot pocket anything. Whatever comes to you: "Unto Thee, unto Thee, Oh Lord, unto Thee."

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#10. There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they
have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy ... we strongly
resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European
public.

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

#11. She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a limpet from a rock.

Gerald Durrell

#12. I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Greg Bryk