Turbot's Quotes

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

Walter Savage Landor

#2. The fool had been branded for the slaughter by the gods.

Herman Melville

#3. Appreciate the people & good fortune within everyday life, this, is the quality of life, experienced.

Bob Armstrong

#4. 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

#5. He was carrying a little more weight, his hair greyer, but he looked healthy and relaxed, like a man who was comfortable with where he was in life and what lay ahead.

Kevin Wignall

#6. She asked if I wanted to spoon with her, and I told her I didn't want to stir things up.

Jarod Kintz

#7. It's never too late to reinvent yourself.

Darlene Quinn

#8. I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

Christopher Eccleston

#9. The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

Janelle Monae

#10. Today is the sum of all the choices we made in our yesterdays. Choose wisely, for a secure, happy, and meaningful tomorrow.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#12. 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

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

Martial

#14. Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

George Herbert Mead

#15. Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."
Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. 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

#17. They might play Extinctathon, or one of the others. Three-Dimensional Waco, Barbarian Stomp, Kwiktime Osama. They all used parallel strategies: you had to see where you were headed before you got there, but

Margaret Atwood

#18. When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as a producer was Contract 001 at Channel 4 - that was the start of independent production in England and the emergence of an independent sector.

Colin Callender

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

John Ruskin

#20. Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Jim Elliot