Buffery Simple Quotes & Sayings

Where did you source your ingredients from?" one of them asked. "Are they local?" "Yeah," Pat said, "they're from the store about a mile from my house." One of the girls behind the table laughed. "Sorry," she said. — J. Ryan Stradal

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. — Aristide Briand

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. — K'naan

On Ove's side of the track it's empty but for three overdimensioned municipal employees in their midthirties in workmen's trousers and hard hats, standing in a ring and staring down into a hole. Around them is a carelessly erected loop of cordon tape. One of them has a mug of coffee from 7-Eleven; another is eating a banana; the third is trying to poke his cell phone without removing his gloves. It's not going so well. And the hole stays where it is. And still we're surprised when the whole world comes crashing down in a financial crisis, Ove thinks. When people do little more than standing around eating bananas and looking into holes in the ground all day. — Fredrik Backman

A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5 — Stormie O'martian

It's uh known fact ... you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. — Zora Neale Hurston

She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers. — Carol Emshwiller

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? — Juvenal