A La Carte Quotes

#1. On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!

Cristin Milioti

#2. Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Patsy Kensit

#4. In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jose Bergamin

#5. You use your Bible like you were ordering from a restaurant menu. I call that Bible a la carte. You choose what parts of the Bible you wish to obey and what others to ignore.

Mark Segal

#6. You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

Dawn Powell

#8. The Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky.

George R R Martin

#9. I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness.

Katie MacAlister

#10. Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Dick Sharples

#11. [W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.

Chuck Jones

#12. On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

Ryan Phillippe

#13. My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

Peter Cushing