Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good