Turbot Quotes

#1. How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

John Ruskin

#2. Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end."
Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.

Hilary Mantel

#3. However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

Martial

#4. In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you ... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

Alejandro Amenabar

#5. The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

Walter Savage Landor

#6. There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

Gael Greene

#7. Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

Milton Friedman

#8. If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.

Sharon Gannon

#9. Don't do anything that isn't play

Joseph Campbell

#10. It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

Baron D'Holbach

#11. Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.

Terry Pratchett

#12. The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Norman Mailer

#13. There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I don't really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.

Kendall Jenner

#14. I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

John Cheever

#15. Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#16. The clash is epic and internal, between the ego and the Self, and the stakes are our lives.

Steven Pressfield