#mutt

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #building #china #connected #dynamic

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#burned #cause #charcoal #distill #face

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #knife #mutter #needs #over

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#experience #facts #mutton #nonsense #sheep

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#because #big #down #i #lost

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. ↗

— James Thurber

#average #banquet #begins #calls #end

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#again #battlefield #crash #dreams #guns

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#could #eternal #fact #i #longer

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#crowds #direction #just #move #mutter

Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut! ↗

— Russell Brand

#lewis-carroll #smutty #humor