Famous Hyacinth Bucket Quotes & Sayings

Accusing us of being a gimmick is a bit like accusing Jesus Christ of having 'a bit of a messiah complex'. True, maybe, but when faced with the undeniable genius of what we put out, does that really still matter? — Gorillaz

Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked. — Mario Puzo

Even though brutality used toward the young, by reason of their defenselessness, provoked greater anger and greater pity, it was still true that they were resilient. Was the wind tempered to the shorn lamb? He grimaced. All the lambs were shorn now, and the wind was from the northeast, full of ice and black frost. — John Christopher

The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at yet another of our supervisor's witless jokes, read books like this one when we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in the bathtub, and we do each of these things in the charitable service of the people we will soon become. — Daniel M. Gilbert

You would have thought that I had left 11 corpses on the steps of a funeral home. — Alex Ferguson

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

He was a broad-shouldered beast. — Karen Marie Moning

She said if anyone ever double-crosses you, especially if it's a friend, you have every right to stomp their guts and leave them with little breath. — Kimberly Afe