Meat quotes
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"Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat."
"I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me."
"Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog."
"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."
"Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding."
"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
"That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation."
"Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that."
"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
"The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat."
"In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat."
"Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision."
"Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?"
"It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison."
"There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise to find so much meat on the bone."
"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling."
"Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat."
"If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat."
"To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat."
"I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends."
