Braised Oxtail Quotes & Sayings

But vegetarians can eat this ... Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel. — Alan Furst

The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace. — Michel Houellebecq

Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman's knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and how they could be persuaded to do something if one approached the matter in the right way. — Alexander McCall Smith

Q: Why did the bride wear white? A: Because the groom wanted his dishwasher to match his fridge and oven. — Various

What could the old man say about all those people born with more courage than they could find a way to spend, and then there was nothing to do with it but just get by? And that was when the times were decent. — Marilynne Robinson

Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. — Robyn Davidson

I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so. — Kate Elliott

I see a lot of women around me who seem to stop developing as individuals after marriage and children. I don't know what kinds of pressure they're under, but I think it robs the world of 'the older version of Judy or Wendy,' or whomever. It robs the world of the next iteration of them, and I don't think that's right. — Justine Bateman

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. — Stephen Hawking

He gave her his hand, sensing the thin strong rod of obdurate competence that was the armature of her artsy Village style. — Michael Chabon

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? — Howard Nemerov