Supplying Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Night, and besides, was ably helped by brave comrades." "The comrades he speaks of," Ivor said, "were too busy — Kazuo Ishiguro

Think of all the duties that were perfectly obvious to Paul or Matthew in that old Arabian desert that are pure nonsense to us now. All that foot washing, for example. Was it really for God's glory or just to keep the sand out of the house? — Barbara Kingsolver

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing. I — Catherynne M Valente

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well. — Lyndon B. Johnson

For all its celebration of markets and individual initiative, this alliance of government and finance often produces results that bear a striking resemblance to the worst excesses of bureaucratization in the former Soviet Union or former colonial backwaters of the Global South. There is a rich anthropological literature, for instance, on the cult of certificates, licenses, and diplomas in the former colonial world. Often the argument is that in countries like Bangladesh, Trinidad, or Cameroon, which hover between the stifling legacy of colonial domination and their own magical traditions, official credentials are seen as a kind of material fetish - magical objects conveying power in their own right, entirely apart from the real knowledge, experience, or training they're supposed to represent. But since the eighties, the real explosion of credentialism has been in what are supposedly the most "advanced" economies, like the United States, Great Britain, or Canada. — David Graeber

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan. — Elton John

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them. — Kurt Russell

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do. — Rene Auberjonois

It's not like I invited you. Oh, and shotgun. I'm not sitting next to the turkey. — H.M. Ward