Pork Scratchings Quotes & Sayings

He felt like a man whose fever
had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength - still
weak, but buoyant with the hope of an eventual return to wholeness. The sickness in
his soul, however, laid a jealous claim on him. — Gaelen Foley

He had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them terrorists, which didn't preclude, and he had emphasized this, that nonterrorists were also capable of atrocities, Auschwitz, for instance, was not the work of terrorists but of state employees ... — Friedrich Durrenmatt

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man. — John F. Kennedy Jr.

What's in that backpack, by the way? You're always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory) Dirty underwear. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages? — Liz Carlyle

My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff. — Jason Flemyng

from Switzerland, came into the valley — David McCullough

I never put down a bad script and I never walk out of a bad movie because I'm always hopeful things will change. — Peter Segal

I have always been a workaholic. — Jewel

The emperor is just a man, after all. — Ken Liu

A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day. — Richard M. Kovacevich

Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz in 1958, he yelled, 'We'll get you through your children!' For countless American families, that turned out to be only too true. — Roger Kimball

Because industrial cycles are never complete - because there is no return - there are two characteristic results of industrial enterprise: exhaustion and contamination. The energy industry, for instance, is not a cycle, but only a short arc between an empty hole and poisoned air. And farming, which is inherently cyclic, capable of regenerating and reproducing itself indefinitely, becomes similarly destructive and self-exhausting when transformed into an industry. Agricultural pollution is a serious and growing problem. And industrial agriculture is forced by its very character to treat the soil itself as a "raw material," which it proceeds to "use up." It has been estimated, for instance, that at the present rate of cropland erosion Iowa's soil will be exhausted by the year 2050. I have seen no attempt to calculate the human cost of such farming - by attrition, displacement, social disruption, etc. - I assume because it is incalculable. This — Wendell Berry

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union. — Angela Merkel

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. — Laurence J. Peter

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy. — Gordon S. Wood