Larded Quotes

#1. Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

Todd Gitlin

#2. I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.

Charles Stross

#3. I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

Hank Azaria

#4. He grinned and, like always, the sight left her breathless.

Julie Ann Walker

#5. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Scott Weiss

#6. On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

Andy Hargreaves

#7. Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.
God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

Anne Rice

#8. You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

Jerry Lewis

#9. New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Colson Whitehead

#10. Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

David Amram

#11. The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

Gavyn Davies

#12. Harvard has now de facto become a Chinese outpost.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#13. Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

Osamu Tezuka

#14. There are people who don't vote for a lot of reasons, sometimes as a statement.

Trent Lott

#15. We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

Elizabeth Gilbert