Butcherly Quotes & Sayings

I remember, working on 'Lost,' I learned very quickly the way that I had to approach the material or even ask the director questions. It was always prefaced with, 'Would it be wrong for me to assume?' Because I didn't know where my character on 'Lost' was going. — Nestor Carbonell

You must dare the impossible. With divine grace, it will be possible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you. — Arthur C. Clarke

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia. — Butch Cassidy

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. — Homer

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. — Mason Cooley

Peace is the inner silence that calms all outer noises. — Debasish Mridha

What are the butcherly delights of meat? These are not sensual but analytical. The satisfaction of scientific curiosity in dissection. A clinical pleasure in the precision with which the process of reducing the living, moving, vivid object to the dead status of thing is accomplished. The pleasure of watching the spectacle of the slaughter that derives from the knowledge one is disassociated from the spectacle; the bloody excitation of the audience in the abattoir, who watch the dramatic transformation act, from living flesh to dead meat, derives from the knowledge they are safe from the knife themselves. There is the technical pleasure of carving and the anticipatory pleasure of the prospect of eating the meat, of the assimilation of the dead stuff, after which it will be humanly transformed into flesh. — Angela Carter

Pluto is currently designated a 'plutoid', and if you think that sounds ok, try adding 'oid' to your name. Her? She's a Susanoid. Hi, I'm a Davoid. It's demoralising. — Ruth Spencer

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance. — Milton Friedman

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic. — Joni Eareckson Tada