Antipasto Platter Quotes & Sayings

She surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling. — Vladimir Nabokov

Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games. — Barnaby Conrad

Words to deeds cold breath gives. — William Shakespeare

The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality. — Gautama Buddha

When in still air and still in summertime
A leaf has had enough of this, it seems
To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage
Its drifting in detachment down the road. — Howard Nemerov

When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and. — Bill Crawford

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. — Flannery O'Connor

Cheat at this game. — Rene Char

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. — Willa Cather

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people. — Jimmy Carter

Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate. — Jeff Schweitzer

If you have no one to fight for, that doesn't mean you have no one to fight for you — Grace Johnson

If I can't find something on this plate to eat, that's my fault," she replied. — Kevin Wilson

We are transformed--magically--into the literary society each time we pass a book along, each time we ask a question about it, each time we say, 'If you liked that, I bet you'd like this.' Whenever we are willing to be delighted and share our delight, as Mary Ann [Shaffer] did, we are part of the ongoing story of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
~Annie Barrows (niece of Mary Ann Shaffer, afterword The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society) — Mary Ann Shaffer