Slugeater Quotes & Sayings

Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and ice locks the land, and a time to be happy and get drunk and behave irresponsibly and wake up the next morning wondering if you will ever feel well again, but the West Saxons handed the feast to the priests who made it as joyous as a funeral. — Bernard Cornwell

If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days? — Lailah Gifty Akita

He was home. In an environment where he felt loved and comfortable in a way not possible in the United States. And yet, he no longer fit in. He loved living in America, but knew that there, too, he didn't quite fit. It was the classic immigrant dilemma. — Anne Cherian

Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right. — John Kador

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back — Lee Benson

The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description and heartfelt expression to classical allusion and evocative wordplay. Succeeding generations rediscover and renew the form so that it retains its vitality. — Harryette Mullen

It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini. — Helena Christensen

Let's clap our hands for the president and Jesus Christ and did I mention Charlie Manson and everybody else, who was nice. — Charles Manson

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. — Julian Cope

One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum. — Albion Fellows Bacon

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror. — Vincent Paronnaud

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms. — Gary Valentine

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves. — Mariel Hemingway