Decoction Quotes

#1. Some of this vile decoction splattered the trousers and shoes of His Serene Majesty the Station-master of Pandoro. Making him instantly less Serene, and considerably less Majestic.

Alex Martin

#2. I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

Nalo Hopkinson

#3. His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.

Herman Melville

#4. madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy)

Marcel Proust

#5. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. What

Herman Melville

#6. Where ever you are, be there totally.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell ... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

Milton Resnick

#8. You can relax. I am not here to collect on the deal"
I blinked. "You are not? Then why did you drop your gun belt?"
"I am tired. I wanted to sit and the belt is uncomfortable."
"Oh."
He smiled. "Disappointed?"
"No." Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Janet Evanovich

#9. For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of "Is your novel an open work or not?" How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or "With which of your characters do you identify?" For God's sake, with whom does an author identify? With the adverbs, obviously.

Umberto Eco

#10. Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.

Peter C Newman

#11. Speak English at this table or I will fire you so fast you'll wind up standing at the airport wondering how you got from here to there without any goddamn pants on.

Mira Grant

#12. You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.

Peter Lindbergh

#13. You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Bob Dylan

#14. As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

Matthew Parris

#15. You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Tom Lehrer

#16. Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

Julie Anne Peters

#17. Dance is fun! It lifts the spirit, stringthens the body, and stimulates the mind ...

Wayne Sleep

#18. Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#19. Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

Temple Grandin