Comestive Quotes & Sayings

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner. — Rick Bass

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world. — Hanna Rosin

Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it. — Rose Macaulay

I felt a springing in my chest. Could Dad and I be close? Like a real father and son? — Jandy Nelson

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move. — Richard Peck

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique. — Peter Senge

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad. — Elvis Presley

Ohio is a scale model of the entire country, jammed into 43,000 square miles. Cleveland views itself as the intellectual East (its citizens believe they have a rivalry with Boston and unironically classify the banks of Lake Erie as the North Coast). Cincinnati is the actual South (they fly Confederate flags and eat weird food). Dayton is the Midwest. Toledo is Pittsburgh, before Pittsburgh was nice. Columbus is a low-altitude Denver, minus the New World Order airport. Ohio experiences all possible US weather, sometimes simultaneously. — Chuck Klosterman

Losing one feather does not prevent a bird from flying. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's transference, Megan," he said. "It happens from time to time. It happens to me, too. I really should have introduced this topic last time. I'm sorry." I — Paula Hawkins

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were. — Cab Calloway

there's a vast difference in the moral underpinnings of a business family and the household of a salaried teacher. I — Vivek Shanbhag

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. — Robert Kennedy

For every year humans had been modern, they had been primitive for seven hundred more, which left a residue, and by then the back part of my brain was firmly in charge - My tribe needs you gone, pal. And you're ugly, too. And you're a pussy. — Lee Child

Who would true Valour see,
Let him come hither — John Bunyan

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class. — Henry Rosovsky