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  • I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

    Thinking   Usa   Sound  
    Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.1, Vintage
  • You need to know where to go,' Sanya said. 'Yes,' 'And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.' 'Yes,' I said. ...'There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.' 'That's pretty rich coming from the agnostic Knight of the Cross with a holy Sword who takes his orders from an archangel.' I said. - Harry Dresden & Sanya, Changes, Jim Butcher

  • Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

    Wish   Cows   Sacred  
  • If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

    Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

    Team   Men   Iraq  
    Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois
  • What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

    Funny   Humor   Kids  
  • The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

    War   People   Political  
  • Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

    Soccer   Trying   Oracles  
  • I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

    Real   Book   Character  
    Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.47, Profile Books
  • Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.

    Adams' commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, December 22, 1802.
  • A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

    Gun   Knives   Tools  
  • Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

    William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.42
  • Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

    "Black day for the blue pencil". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
  • Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.

    Father   Exercise   Boys  
  • Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

    "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi". Book by Louis Fischer, 1950.
  • Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

    Insanity   Trying   Balls  
  • My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

  • If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

    Long Ago   Knives   World  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing
  • The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

    "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".
  • The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

    Dog   Children   Fate  
  • Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

    Men   Animal   Fire  
    Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi
  • Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

    Queens   Fun   Grandma  
  • I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!

    Simple   Snacks   Two  
    mobuta.com, 2004.
  • When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

    Writing   Bakers   Needs  
    William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • I used to butcher my Barbies. I would draw hearts on their cheeks. I would give them haircuts and I would keep going because it would be uneven and they would be left bald

    Heart   Giving   Barbie  
  • I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

    Source: www.fluxmagazine.com
  • I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

  • I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

    Night   Winning   Awards  
    "Karl Pilkington On Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe Show: I Don’t Watch Or Understand Awards". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2012.
  • Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

    Reading   Gossip   Crowds  
  • I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.

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