Quotes On Buttering Up

#1. It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

John C. Maxwell

#3. It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves, he lamented.

Diane Ackerman

#4. One act of random kindness is enough to transform despair into hope.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. But if it wasn't you, then who would I dream about?

Siri Mitchell

#6. Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

Amanda Donohoe

#7. I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

David Attenborough

#8. What kind of knife is this?" Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. "It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this.

Scott Lynch

#9. I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.

Liana Liberato

#10. So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast.
"This is death toast sweety.

Christopher Moore

#11. Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.

Adele Griffin

#12. The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

Augusten Burroughs

#13. Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

Jerry West

#14. but applying logic to love is like buttering a pig before you slaughter it.

Penny Reid

#15. If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.

Nick Diaz

#16. No, no, no, Landemere. This time I'm putting my foot down. I mean it. Don't think you're going to smear syrup on my beard, as we say in Ramaldah. You're not making me change my mind by sweet talking me. I know your tricks, and I won't fall for them.

Andrew Ashling

#17. One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

Padma Lakshmi

#18. If you lie there much longer, I'll be tempted to tie you to the table legs and try buttering your ass instead of the toast.

Cari Silverwood

#19. The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

Russ Feingold

#20. Just once I'd like something to go as planned, ya know?

Andy Weir

#21. I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Rebecca De Mornay

#22. Here," he said,holding out a dark mink coat. "Thought you might be cold."
"Where did you-"
"I yoinked it off a broad coming home from the market back there.Don't worry,she had enough natural padding already."
"Bill!"
"Hey,you needed it!" He shrugged. "Wear it in good health.

Lauren Kate