Worm Bet

Famous quotes containing the words worm and/or bet:

    Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
    Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)

    Roger Thornhill: Tell me, how does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?
    Eve Kendall: Lucky I guess.
    Roger Thornhill: No, not lucky. Naughty, wicked, up to no good. Ever kill anyone? Because I bet you could tease a man to death without half trying. So stop trying.
    Ernest Lehman (b.1920)