Huxtables Food Quotes & Sayings

Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution. — Jamaica Kincaid

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school! — Kathy Bryson

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. — George Santayana

The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next. — Laura Lippman

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too. — Corin Tucker

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — E. T. Bell

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is. — Hamilton Leithauser

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular. — Alexander Payne

A good story should change the way you see the world. — Chuck Palahniuk

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot. — Denis Diderot

It's a funny life," Augustus said. "All these cattle and nine-tenths of the horses is stolen, and yet we was once respected lawmen. If we get to Montana we'll have to go into politics. You'll wind up governor if the dern place ever gets to be a state. And you'll spend all your time passing laws against cattle thieves. — Larry McMurtry

A new governing majority will depend on two breakthroughs. The first is that voters, not big money, once again determine election outcomes. We need to break out of the money-politics-media trap. The second is that government be able to translate increased revenues into effective public services and infrastructure. We need, in short, a return to civic virtue, in which Americans recommit to contributing to the common benefit and to cooperating for mutual gain. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Abandoned Valley
Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope? — Jack Gilbert