Groundnut Cake Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to be gentle, because we both know you don't want gentle. I'm going to torment you until you're stiff and aching - until even the whisper of my breath on your skin makes you moan. — Samanthe Beck

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. — Napoleon Bonaparte

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

A distinguished researcher once commented to me that a real scientist is someone who can think about a subject while talking to his or her spouse about something else. — Edward O. Wilson

I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her. — Gethin Jones

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie. — Ana Monnar

I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. — Robert Pape

While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat. — Alfred H. Barr Jr.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. — David Foster Wallace