Ragout Quotes

#1. That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?

Tom Holt

#2. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift

#3. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...

Max McKeown

#4. I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Sandra Oh

#5. I saw only the glory of green emeralds, and radiant buddhas walking everywhere, and there was no I to see any of this, but the emeralds were there just the same.

Ken Wilber

#6. One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

Darren Shan

#7. I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

Jay R. Ferguson

#8. It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#9. There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Stendhal

#10. And you wouldn't want to bring her home - at least not to entertain your guests or amuse the children. No, Juan Diego thought - you would want to keep her, all for yourself.

John Irving

#11. During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.

Hugh Hardy

#12. Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily ... and the other ends badly.

Mitch Albom

#13. Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.

Rebecca Mead