#cows

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#away #cows #enough #face #facts

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#cows #direct #go #home #i

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cows #even #i #i think #leading

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#corn #cows #factory-farms #food #industry

We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different--cows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousness--but because our perception of them is different. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#carnism #cows #dogs #ethics #meat

I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable. ↗

— Binyavanga Wainaina

#cows #development #irony #kenya #ngo

You can sit on a brick, and milk a cow with a blanket. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#bizarre #brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses

I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup: ↗

— Groucho Marx

#humor #humor

…and available man candy. But at least there would be mud, and maybe cows.” p12 ↗

— Claire Upton

#fate #love #twisted #love