Comestible Quotes & Sayings

The non-jocks, the readers, the gay kids, the ones starting to stew about social injustice: for these kids, "letting your freak flag fly" is both self discovery and self defense. You cry for this bunch at the mandatory pep assemblies. Huddled together, miserably, in the upper reaches of the bleachers, wearing their oversized raincoats and their secondhand Salvation Army clothes, they stare down at the school-sanctioned celebration of the A list students. They know bullying, these kids
especially the ones who frefuse to exist under the radar. They're tripped in the hallway, shoved against lockers, pelted with Skittles in the lunchroom. For the most part, their tormentors are stealth artists.
The freaks know where there's refuge: I the library, the theater program, art class, creative writing. — Wally Lamb

So I'm standing there, holding a googly-eyed can of beans as it shakes and loudly farts the birthday song to me in a gas station. — Jenny Lawson

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far — Claude C. Hopkins

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it. — Elbert Hubbard

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole. — Sarah J. Maas

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits. — Brian Tracy

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations. — Richard E. Byrd

But the ground rumbled with a growing, urgent thunder. — Steven Erikson

But you invite ... "
"I invite a bit of military nonsense."
"That's what I ... "
"Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson."
"What lesson?"
"The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness. — Frank Herbert

Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective. — James Ellroy

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world. — Jorge Luis Borges

May all your dreams come true, save one. — David Gemmell

Science is about principles. It's about concepts. It's not about memorizing the parts of a flower. It helps to know some of these things, but if that's all you do that's not science, science is about principles and concepts. — Michio Kaku

[Someone had left the lid off the big tin of fairies and, if they were to be used up before they went off then lovely, moist, stale-fairy cakes were the only option. Nota bene, years later all of the magic would be taken out of these little confections and they would become known in "global" "English" rather more drearily as "cupcakes". This is why you can no longer buy tins of either fresh or dried fairies except in speciality comestible shops.] — Ian Hutson