"Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout."

-- J. B. Morton

#Horse Quotes #Cows Quotes #Milk Quotes

“If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...”
“There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.”
“But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”
“Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.”
“I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.”
“Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.”
“I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.”
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Source : Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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