Menu Card Quotes

#1. The proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

Pearl S. Buck

#2. For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

Philip Massinger

#3. The floor went completely black when Mr. Amos pulled the door shut. I couldn't see it now, but I'd rememorized the exact shape the stain was in. The padlock snapped shut with the loudest click I'd ever heard.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#4. With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

Daniel Ek

#5. Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.

Bob Diamond

#6. Humble Wishes [10w]
"God, all I simply ask is that I become perfect.

Beryl Dov

#7. You're like a box of chocolates with the menu missing - the card that tells you what they are. I never know what I'm going to get with you: a soft, creamy centre, something chewy, or an explosion of alcohol.

Linda Gillard

#8. Why, to give another suggestive example, did it take an American journalist sixty-five days to get official permission (including, after a wait of up to five weeks, a Food

Niall Ferguson

#9. We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Tom Stoppard

#10. I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Penelope Lively

#11. The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.

Graham Swift

#12. It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness ... I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.

Sophie Blackall

#14. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

George Orwell

#15. we grow up when we have to, not when we're ready.

Isabel Curtis