Old Colleague Quotes

#1. Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?'
'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

J.K. Rowling

#2. If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.

Guru Nanak

#3. Alice: I simply must get through!
Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible.
Alice: You mean impossible?
Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

Lewis Carroll

#4. Everyone knows that if you paint a human being entirely with house paint he will live, as long as you don't paint the bottom of his feet. It takes only a little thing like this to kill a person.

Miranda July

#5. Don't bring up McKinley. Don't bring up McKinley.

Sarah Vowell

#6. I view game shows as welfare for the hyperactive.

Jennifer Ball

#7. Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

Jim Crace

#8. Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Seneca The Younger