#pig

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#benevolence #epigram #reputation #wild

I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?" Maybe... if it's an evil guinea pig. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#evil

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#mess #pigsty #humor

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#lot #pigs #who #women

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#genre #pigeonhole #successful #unsuccessful #weird

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#get #i #people #pigeons #rid

I have eyes like those of a dead pig. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#eyes #i #like #pig #those

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. ↗

— John le Carre

#british press #depths #go #go to hell #hell