To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes - but it's just like chicken, only tenderer. Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.

Quote by Alistair Cooke

Topics: Food Quotes

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like...

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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

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Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

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These humiliations are the essence of the game.

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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

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It's an acting job - acting natural.

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People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than...

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does...

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