Curnutt Dining Quotes & Sayings

Wait a second," I said. "Did we just win? — Joel N. Ross

Life bullies us son, but God don't. He had good reasons for fixin' it where if'n you git too sick or too hurt to live, why, you can die, same as a sick chicken. I've knowed a few really sick chickens to git well, and lots a-folks git well thet nobody ever thought to see out a-bed agin cept in a coffin. Still and all, common sense tells you this much: everwhat makes a wheel run over a track will make it run over a boy if'n he's in the way. If'n you'd a got kilt, it'd mean you jest didn't move fast enough, like a rabbit that gits caught by a hound dog ... When it comes to prayin' we got it all over the other animals, but we ain't no different when it comes to livin' and dyin'. If'n you give God the credit when somebody don't die, you go'n blame Him when they do die? Call it His Will? Ever noticed we git well all the time and don't die but once't? Thet has to mean God always wants us to live if'n we can. — Olive Ann Burns

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens. — Earl Blumenauer

Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: Things that start in the rain end well. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the cheerier Ronan he had been when Gansey first met him.
"Hold on," Gansey told Adam. Then, to Ronan: "Why would he be?"
"No reason. Just no reason." Ronan slammed his door.
Gansey asked Adam, "Sorry. You still have that suit for the party?"
Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"
Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead! — Maggie Stiefvater

Seek the sacred light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read. — Joseph Barrell

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets. — Isaac Mizrahi

I'm not sure I can be what they want me to be. But I'll try. — A.S. King

One can seldom admire what one loves. — Marcel Proust

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all. — John Milton

Kabir says, only they are pure who've completely cleansed their thinking. — Kabir

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few. — James Gleick

Places we went back to so many times that they started to — Carol Rifka Brunt

Maybe these people lived here in warmer times and left when it got too cold." "But where did they go?" She shrugs. "Your guess is as good as mine. — Ruby Dixon