quotes about Sawdust
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Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.
-- Angela KnightSource : Angela Knight (2011). “Master of Shadows”, p.67, Penguin
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I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
-- Anita Loos -
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
-- Edith Sitwell -
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything,
-- Henry Ford -
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You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
-- Scott LynchSource : Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.161, Del Rey
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It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.
-- Melanie Thernstrom -
Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.
-- John McKeithen