A Quotes
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“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?”
“And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.”
“And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.”
Source: All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
“And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income taxes can be a 'pain in the neck,' the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life”
Source: Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism
“And today, for the first time, we are given a real recipe: making chocolate pudding from scratch. We stir cocoa and cornstarch and sugar together, then stir in milk. Chef guides us step by step and we all clean our stations as the pudding chills. As I'm putting away my ingredients, a little red bottle in the pantry calls my attention. I snatch it up and sprinkle some on my pudding. When Chef Ayden calls us up to test our dishes, I'm the first student to set my bowl in front of him. He grabs a clean plastic spoon and pulls my dish closer to him, leaning down to inspect it, turning the dish slowly in a circle. "Mmm. Nice chocolate color, smooth texture; you made sure the cream didn't break, which is great. And I'm curious what this is on top."
He takes a tiny spoonful and pops it into his mouth, and the moment his mouth closes around the spoon his eyelids close, too. I wonder if my cooking woo-woo will work on him. "What is that?" he asks, his eyes still closed. I assume he means the spice on top and not whatever memory may have been loosened by my pudding. His eyes open and I realize the question was in fact for me.
"I used a little smoked paprika," I say. Heat creeps up my neck. I hadn't even thought about what would happen if I used an ingredient that wasn't in the original recipe.
"You trying to show off, Emoni?" Chef Ayden asks me very, very seriously.
"No, Chef. I wasn't."
"The ancient Aztecs too would pair chocolate with chipotle and cayenne and other spices, although it is not so common now. Why'd you add it?"
"I don't know. I saw it in the pantry and felt the flavors would work well together."
He takes another spoonful. Chef told us from the beginning that since every student is evaluated, he would very rarely take more than one bite of any single dish. I'm surprised he does so now, but he closes his eyes again as if the darkness behind his lids will help him better taste the flavors. His eyes pop open.
"This isn't bad." He drops his spoon. "Emoni, I think creativity is good. And this, this..." He gives a half laugh like he's surprised he doesn't know what to say. He clears his throat and it seems almost like a memory has him choked up.”
Source: With the Fire on High
“And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service.”
Source: Glory
“And togheter, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness”
“And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.”
Source: East of Eden
“And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.”
Source: We
“And tonight I'm feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when i lifted off, now i'm stuck up here and the world forgot, can i please come down? Cuz i'm tired of drifting round and round....can i please come down? Now I lie awake and scream in my zero gravity...and its starting to weigh down on me....lets abort this mission now....CAN I PLEASE COME DOWN? So tonight I'm calling all the astronauts, all the lonely people that the world forgot, if you hear my voice, come pick me up, cuz ur all i've got...”
“And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.”
Source: Slammerkin
“And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.”
Source: Love Poems
“And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“And too soon Marred are those so early Made.”
“And took for truth the test of ridicule.”
Source: The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life
“And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.”
“And Tottenham shan't be able to to resist me in this dress. No man could."
"Olivia!" the marchioness said from her place. "That is entirely unladylike."
"Why? That is the goal, is it not? To tempt one's husband?"
"One does not tempt one's husband!" the marchioness insisted.
Olivia's smile turned mischievous. "You must have tempted yours once or twice, Mother."
"Oh!" Lady Needham collapsed back against the settee.
Madame Hebert turned away from the conversation, waving two girls over to work on Pippa's hem.
Olivia winked at Pippa. "Five times, at least."
Pippa could not resist. "Four. Victoria and Valerie are twins."
"Enough! I can't abide it!" The marchioness was up and through the curtains to the front of the shop, leaving her daughters to their laughter.”
Source: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
“And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.”
“And Tracy was young, just twenty, still wet behind the ears, and the old blinders were on him so he couldn't really see what was around and he believed the bull about freedomofopportunity and a chancetorise and ifyoureallywanttoworkyoucanalwaysfindajob and ruggedindividualism and something about pursuitofhappiness.”
“And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.”
“And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more.”
Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the same form. I find that appealing.”
“And Tria this is Vilenthe.” Tria just stares before collapsing onto the floor Ingra looks down “She'll be fine.” Vilenthe scowls “She has seen me before. Many years ago before I was selected for the 11th Tournament, she must've forgotten about that but we have met before.”
Source: JACQUERIE. Volume II
“And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps”
“And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.”
“And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.”
Source: Molloy
“And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?”
Source: The Essays
“And, truly, the case against Christianity is plain and damning. Never, during the whole of its history has it spoken in a clear voice against slavery; always, as we have seen, its chief supporters have been pronounced believers. They have cited religious teaching in its defence, they have used all the power of the Church for its maintenance. Naturally, in a world in which the vast majority are professing Christians, believers are to be found on the side of humanity and justice. But to that the reply is plain. Men are human before they are Christians; both history and experience point, to the constant lesson of the many cases in which the claims of a developing humanity override those of an inculcated religious teaching.
But the damning fact against Christianity is, not that it found slavery here when it arrived, and accepted it. as a settled institution, not even that it is plainly taught in its 'sacred' books, but, that it deliberately created a new form of slavery, and for hundreds of years invested it with a brutality greater than that which existed centuries before. A religion which could tolerate this slavery, argue for it, and fight for it, cannot by any stretch of reasoning be credited with an influence in forwarding emancipation. Christianity no more abolished slavery than it abolished witchcraft, the belief in demonism, or punishment for heresy. It was the growing moral, and social sense of mankind that compelled Christians and Christianity to give up these and other things.”
Source: Christianity Slavery & Labour
“And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.”
“And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.”
“And trust dies from ifs and buts”
Source: Dying to Know You
“And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I’m probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.”
“And truth is indivisible, it shines with its own transparency and does not allow itself to be diminished by our interests or our shame.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“And truth -“ Jacks smirked. “The truth is never what you want it to be, Little Fox.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.”
Source: The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford
“And truthfully, Valentine's Town is unexpectedly charming--in an odd, sideways sort of way. No sooty sky or charcoal buildings teetering in the distance. No rotted skulls or jack-o'-lanterns glowing sinisterly in the dark, no cackling ghouls or demons or grim reapers with hollowed-out eyes watching us from shadowed corners. In fact, there are no dark places at all. Instead, everything is bright and confectioner-sugar-shiny. The air has a pinked, dreamy quality, a subtly sweet tinge, like rosebuds newly bloomed in spring or the first lick of pumpkin-pie filling on a spoon.”
Source: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen
“And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.”
“And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.”
“And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.”
Source: High Stakes
“And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.”
Source: The Lion of Senet
“And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.”
Source: The Moon and More
“And Tumble would roll her eyes, because honestly, her dad need some new jokes.”
Source: Tumble & Blue
“And turkeys are a bird. A very nervous bird. You'd be nervous too if you knew that one day you'd get your head cut off and... filled with stuffing.”
“And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.”
Source: The Castle Behind Thorns
“And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?”
“And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.”
“And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.”
“And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.”