#replies

When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...' ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#i do #justice #know #peace #replies

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#cannot #describe #fights #followed #frantic

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#agents #another #book #brown #deal

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing. ↗

— Peter Banks

#because #been #doing #double #fact