Mme. Du Deffand Quotes

#1. Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we're eating animals. - Author: Michael Pollan

#2. Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues." - Author: P. J. O'Rourke

#3. It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. - Author: David Bowie

#4. Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#5. When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top. - Author: Donald Trump

#6. I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry. - Author: Karin Fossum

#7. All the rules changed. I'm holding you hostage, pretty. Who the hell do you think you are?"
"Just an old lady trying to make things right. - Author: Cat Porter

#8. Hmm...which one of us has leprosy?."
"Both of us. Jill I'm a newspaperman. - Author: Robert A. Heinlein

#9. Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others. - Author: Richard Powers