Figurate With Red Quotes & Sayings

The history of the bagel suggests that Americans' shifting, blended, multi-ethnic eating habits are signs neither of postmodern decadence, ethnic fragmentation, nor corporate hegemony. If we do not understand how a bagel could sometimes be Jewish, sometimes be "New York," and sometimes be American, or why it is that Pakistanis now sell bagels to both Anglos and Tejanos in Houston, it is in part because we have too hastily assumed that our tendency to cross cultural boundaries in order to eat ethnic foods is a recent development - and a culinary symptom of all that has gone wrong with contemporary culture.

It is not. The bagel tells a different kind of American tale. It high- lights ways that the production, exchange, marketing, and consumption of food have generated new identities - for foods and eaters alike. — Donna Gabaccia

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows. — Charles Spurgeon

I love going on location, and the location was nice. — Ray Walston

The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek. — Jim Hightower

Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota. — Ron Carlson

You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. — Wayne Dyer

Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there. — Destiny Booze

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to. — Taylor Mali

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me. — Drew Brees

Wow, you must be in love if you are willing to sacrifice your manhood for the ultimate chick flick. — Jenna Roads

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. — Julian Schnabel

[THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] — Victor Hugo