Butcher Bird Quotes

#1. The butcher bird makes its noise
And asks you to agree
With its brutal nesting habits
And its pointless savagery
Now, the nightingale sings to you
And raises up the ante
I put one hand on your round ripe heart
And the other down your panties

Nick Cave

#2. My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Agnes Martin

#3. You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

Jim Butcher

#4. I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

Sarah Dessen

#5. I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.

Stephanie Beatriz

#6. However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Dwight Yoakam

#7. Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

Debi Mazar

#8. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Edward Abbey

#10. These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Rumi

#11. So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#12. ...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

Jim Butcher

#13. All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

Richard Kadrey

#14. In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

Richard Kadrey

#15. Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#16. revenge was never my intention.
-but it still tastes sweeter than honey

Amanda Lovelace

#17. I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.

Angela Davis

#18. Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

Jackie Gleason

#19. I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

Jennifer Jason Leigh