Abattoir Quotes

#1. The words "I love you" could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row.

Pat Conroy

#2. When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.

Kate Atkinson

#3. Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.

Chrissie Hynde

#4. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like an abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already in another life.

Kate Atkinson

#5. We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir!

Philip Ridley

#6. It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!

Malcolm Lowry

#7. Debt will always be the abattoir of creative dreams.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

Don McCullin

#9. I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

Nick Frost

#10. History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

Revilo P. Oliver

#11. I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.

John C. Reilly

#12. It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Seamus Heaney

#13. The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Steven Heighton

#14. The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.

Iain M. Banks

#15. If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.

Roddy Doyle

#16. Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

George MacDonald

#17. This is how I disappear in pieces.
This is how I leave without moving from my place.
This is how I dance away.
This is how I'm gone before you wake.

Emma Brynstein

#18. The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

C.S. Lewis

#19. There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Richard Pryor

#20. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE

Daniel H. Pink

#21. Magnus, we're going down to the lake," he said. "Do you want to come?"
"Why?" Magnus inquired.
Alec shrugged, "Clary says it's pretty," he said. "I mean, I've seen it before, but there was a huge angel rising out of it, and that was distracting.

Cassandra Clare

#22. I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Rand Paul

#23. When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.

JR

#24. Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid?

Nick Cave

#25. I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

Constance Marie

#26. People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Samuel L. Jackson

#27. I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.

Jim Knight

#28. In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

James Anthony Froude

#29. Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

William Feather

#30. invariably the superior in right of her sex, and

George Routledge