Precut Quotes & Sayings

Maybe most important, farm food itself is totally different from what most people now think of as food: none of those colorful boxed and bagged products, precut, parboiled, ready to eat, and engineered to appeal to our basest desires. We were selling the opposite: naked, unprocessed food, two steps from the dirt. — Kristin Kimball

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention. — Thomas Keller

She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball. — Marissa Meyer

The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position. — Murray Rothbard

She wondered why no one saw through her disguise. Perhaps people could see only what they expected, what fit inside their vision, as if human vision came in precut shapes more narrow than the world itself, and this allowed her to hide in plain sight. — Carolina De Robertis

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers. — Jeb Bush

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need. — Melina Marchetta

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something. — Jhumpa Lahiri

No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her. — Stieg Larsson

I am justly killed with mine own treachery. — William Shakespeare

sometimes you have to lose to win. — Donna Tartt

When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well. — Midnight Blue

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text or the experience of a reader. Meaning is an inescapable notion because it is not something simple or simply determined. It is simultaneously an experience of a subject and a property of a text. It is both what we understand and what in the text we try to understand. — Jonathan Culler

Hate me if you want to, love me if you can. — Toby Keith

You lie, All-father. You lie in the way that some folk breathe. — Neil Gaiman