Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

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I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

Harry, " Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior.

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Life is eternal. You are immortal. You never do die. You simply change form.

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

I hit a one-yard draw in there