"One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal."

-- Myrtle Reed

#Guests Quotes #Dinner Quotes #Salad Quotes

“Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.”
“I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.”

Source : "Vanessa Laker Meets Taio Cruz: The Interview". Interview with Vanessa Laker, vanlaker.wordpress.com. September 11, 2010.
“Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.”
“Senegal needs a renaissance.”
“Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence ....”

Source : Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”
“Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.”
“Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.”

Source : "Jon Cryer: I Thought Charlie Sheen Was Going to Die" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 19, 2011.
“A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.”

Source : "Denis Dutton dies; author, philosopher, brother to L.A. booksellers" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 28, 2010.

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