Butterick Plus Quotes & Sayings

The relationship itself was a croquette, too much flour and milk patted smooth into something it wasn't. — Laura Jacobs

George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. — Marilyn Wilson

I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind. — Suzi Quatro

Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. — Matthew Butterick

I just ... ," Cath started again: "I realized that I'm not cut out for fiction-writing."
Professor Piper blinked and pulled her head back. "What are you talking about? You're exactly cut out for it. You're a Butterick pattern, Cath
this is what you were meant to do. — Rainbow Rowell

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it. — Jennifer Egan

...they lived in a curious but not unhappy isolation, though her father was a popular schoolteacher. Partly they were cut off by Sara's heart trouble, but also by their subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network, which nobody around them listened to. By Sara's making her own clothes - sometimes ineptly - from Vogue patterns, instead of Butterick. Even by the way they preserved some impression of youth instead of thickening and slouching like the parents of Juliet's schoolfellows. — Alice Munro

Learning itself, received into a mind
By nature weak, or viciously inclined,
Serves but to lead philosophers astray,
Where children would with ease discern the way. — William Cowper

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear. — Andy Goldsworthy