Forecourt Trader Quotes & Sayings

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food. — Gayle King

I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different — Dave Abrams

The schools of the country are its future in miniature. — Tehyi Hsieh

I like people who can't die in their bed. — Erri De Luca

You don't often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time. — John Feinstein

Nobody loses weight eating anyplace with laminated menus. — Jacob M. Appel

The point I wish to make is that those things cause the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind him. You do not know how much that is going to mean to us who are going abroad. You do not know how much that means to any soldier who is over there carrying the flag for his country. That is the point which should be uppermost in the minds of those who are working for the soldier. — John J. Pershing

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. — Samuel Johnson

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir. — Greg Graffin

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake. — Elizabeth Goudge

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist — Steven Erikson

Is equally young and foolish in the wide lens of history, and the arrogant denial of this is what unraveled the world. — Isaac Marion

My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said "our world." He always said "your world." But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he'd been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities?
I looked around "my" bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not? — Karen Marie Moning

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009. — Damien Chazelle

I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people. — Sheryl Crow