Baverstock Feeds Quotes & Sayings

Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts. — Delia Sherman

The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

The Egyptian duck is a dangerous animal: one snap of its beak and you are infected with Egyptology for life. — Auguste Mariette

Meissonier always spent many months researching his subject, finding out, for example, the precise sort of coats or breeches worn at the court of Louis XV, then hunting for them in rag fairs and market stalls or, failing that, having them specially sewn by tailors. — Ross King

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good! — Denis Leary

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end. — David Hewson

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille. — Lytton Strachey