Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
Tiger and the Rose, 1971
“Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.”
Siuan Sanche
(15 October 1991)
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Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.
“Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
“Sometimes I think I’ll never trust another girl the way I trust you.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“The question is: do you trust me? Sometimes.”
Alastair Reynolds book Pushing Ice
Bella smiled. “That’s exactly the right attitude: trust your leaders, but be careful not to trust them too much.”
Source: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 27 (p. 397)
“I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Life magazine (4 January 1963) attributed variant: I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
“He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning
Joy in the Morning (1947)
“He puts the biscuit in the basket.”
Keith Olbermann (1959) American sports and political commentator
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