Unctuously Quotes

#1. A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#2. God offers his protection to sinners," Ceolnoth said unctuously. "Especially to sinners," Ceolberht said. "I'll remember that," I said, "when I've finished sinning.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#4. Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

Robert Coover

#5. Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

Mark Cuban

#6. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

LeCrae

#7. I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.

Lloyd Dorfman

#8. I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. He had seen firsthand how technology, patience, and long-term thinking could pay off.

Brad Stone

#10. The wounds on the body can be healed by medicine but the wounds in heart can only be healed by love.

Hussain Rasheed

#11. She has to be written out of history and written into myth.

Hal Duncan

#12. And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

Eric Butterworth

#13. Getting even throws everything out of balance.

Joe Browne

#14. absolute power, it was terrifying.

Richard Sanders

#15. In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

Leo Buscaglia

#16. And at one point (cough) walking into a chicks knife (cough), he'd finally won.
'I'm king of the world, bitches. Come in here and bask in my glory.' His voice echoed through the foyer, expectant eager.
-Strider

Gena Showalter

#17. Malice remains its animating impulse.

Janet Malcolm