Churn Butter Quotes & Sayings

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours. — Annie Fellows Johnston

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue! — Carrie Underwood

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways. — Tom Brady

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin. — Veronica Roth

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family. — Paloma Faith

The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.' (138) — Sheldon B. Kopp

A huge fireplace and Dutch oven of fieldstone filled one wall. Over them hung a long muzzle-loading rifle, powder horn, and bullet pouch. On the mantel were candle molds, a coffee mill, an iron and trivet, and a rusty kettle. An iron cauldron, big enough to boil a missionary in, swung at the end of a long arm in the fireplace, and below it, like so many black offspring, were a cluster of small pots. A wooden butter churn held the door open, and clusters of Indian corn hung from the molding at aesthetic intervals. A colonial scythe stood in one corner, and two Boston rockers on a hooked rug faced the cold fireplace, where the unwatched pot never boiled. Paul — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

(An artist coworker of mine once asked whether alien life forms from Europa would be called Europeans. The absence of any other plausible answer forced me to say yes.) — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

She seems to think that running off and leaving me heartbroken is a good idea, so I decided that I'm going to take her home with me every single day to remind her that my heart beats only for her. That my day starts with her running through my mind and ends with her sleeping in my arms. — Claire Contreras

I took a big draft of my beer, warmed by my reminiscences, and quietly delighted at the thought that my schooldays were forever behind me, that never again for as long as I lived would I have to bevel an edge or elucidate the principles of the Volstead Act in not less than 250 words or give even a mouse-sized shit about which far-flung countries produce jute and what they do with it. It is a thought that never fails to cheer me. In — Bill Bryson

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. — George Stevens

Whenever I'm worried about anything," said this guy Ben, "I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort. Svetlana — Elif Batuman

Money is economic power. — Walter Bagehot

More than ever, the human world needs to find ways to build love, understanding, and peace, individually and on a global scale. — Rick Hanson

The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different. — Scott Ellis

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man. — Laozi

And how sweet that would have been: the two of them back by the milk shed, squatting by the churn, smashing cold, lumpy butter into their faces with not a care in the world. — Toni Morrison

He seems to have a passable knowledge of how to pretend to churn butter. — George Saunders

They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not be undertaken in opposition to the Asuras, but only with their help. The pronouncement ran contrary to everything the Devas had previously thought. But in the end, what did they have to lose, given that their lives were so futile? Now they thought: Anything, so long as there be a trial, a risk, a task. — Roberto Calasso

Truth, love and God are all the same.
For in them there is purity;
In us there is separation into this and that. — Gian Kumar

But a strange thing happened when a man reached the place he was trying to get. His thinking set, like a churn of milk gone to butter. — Julia Franks

The floor is milk, churn it and make it butter. — Crazy Legs

I think that it won't be long before a team calls that says, 'Just go do what you do'. — Shaun Alexander