Retnuh Quotes & Sayings

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite. — Charles Dickens

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will. — Barack Obama

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around. — Robbie Lawler

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.' — Binyavanga Wainaina

I feel lost yet strangely at home, like a flea who has taken up residence on a zebra. — A.G. Howard

Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films. — Ethan Hawke

Nobody can be anybody without somebodies around. — John Archibald Wheeler

Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up. — Alan Bennett

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles. — Margaret Thatcher

When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him. — Chris Matthews