Beaumonts Menu Quotes & Sayings

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart. — Corrie Ten Boom

I hand the cage to him and he takes it firmly in his arms.
'Your hankie smells nice,' he says, almost in a whisper. — Shan Sa

They had been married for seventeen years; she lived in the deepest room in his heart. And sometimes that meant that wife occurred to him before Mathilde, helpmeet before herself. Abstraction of her before the visceral being. But not now. When she came across the veranda, he saw Mathilde all of a sudden. The dark whip at the center of her. How, so gently, she flicked it and kept him spinning. — Lauren Groff

The lower bunks, both of us longing to be pinned. "You kids think you invented sex," my mother was fond of saying. But hadn't we? With no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn't we all come away feeling we'd discovered something unspeakably modern? — David Sedaris

It looked like our gods, to me
not literally, no the way they are depicted in statues, but the vibrant space between them, where Necessity is Chance and Chance flows into Necessity. The world is as it must be, and as it happens to be, and those are the same thing, connected and right, and you understand and love all of it, because you are all of it and all of it is you. — Rachel Hartman

As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses. — Tyrone Willingham

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso

Babies arrived covered in blood, didn't they? Maybe dropping something tiny and helpless into the world with its own gravy was a terrible decision on the part of evolution. — Mira Grant

Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself. — Kevin Eikenberry

Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The staircase was a mass of rotting wood, carved with such cruel-looking mermaids that Mr. Jelliby was afraid to put his hand on the banister. — Stefan Bachmann

Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose ancestry is purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest."
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach those with brave deeds to their name."
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same. — J.K. Rowling

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV. — Ani DiFranco

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi