#uncle

I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hagrid #humor #uncle-vernon #humor

It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone. ↗

— Ally Carter

#uncle-eddie #uncommon-criminals #business

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in the story that is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#business

The curse of men can't make me defiled. I defile myself if I curse men by intention. ↗

— Toba Beta

#defile #heart #unclean #word-of-mouth #men

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with. ↗

— Theo Rossi

#big #california #clubs #had #helped

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#believe #books #could #had #hardly

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. ↗

— Francis Crick

#ambiguous #amino #amino acid #certainly #code

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#been #could #i #rancher #said

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them. ↗

— Dian Fossey

#contact #could #cross #especially #get

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#bed #bloke #came #couple #doing