#butcher

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.... ↗

— Jim Butcher

#dresden-files #harry-dresden #jim-butcher #turn-coat #experience

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink. ↗

— Carson Daly

#good #important #like #shrink

I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#because #best #butchers #films #get

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#butcher #complete #environment #growing #growing up

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#quote #love

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#days #eat #go #having #i

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#quote #dresden-files

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. ↗

— Lord Byron

#been #bred #business #butcher #cleaver

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#bee #birds #butcher #got #him