Forks Quotes - Page 11

• I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

  Edna O'Brien

  Tuning, Tense

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• "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Independence, Mind

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• "Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire, and also of the potatoes by the application of a fork. Preparation of the greens will further become necessary if you persist in this unseemly demeanour."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.895, e-artnow

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• This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

  Dylan Thomas

  Girl, Eye, Smoking

  Song: If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love

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• It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

  John Burdett

  Safety, Imagination, Finals

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• Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Father, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Knives, Romance

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• I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

  Edna O'Brien

  Tuning, Want, Love Always

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• The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Names, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.680, Delphi Classics

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• When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

  Robin Morgan

  People, Catholic, Religion

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• I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Mother, Knives, Special

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• You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality.

  Vince Vaughn

  Running, Country, School

  "True Detective's Vince Vaughn on gun control, Edward Snowden and comedy" by Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?

  Damon Knight

  Taken, Should Have, Years

  Damon Knight (1986). “Man in the Tree”

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• Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what's on the end of the fork . . . the truth.

  J. G. Ballard

  Book, Blow, Lunch

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• Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

  Vince Vaughn

  Gun, People, Fats

  "Vince Vaughn: guns in schools will prevent mass shootings" by Benjamin Lee, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hate, Glasses, Knives

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Knives, House, Machines

  "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.

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• You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
  But it always comes roaring back again.

  Tom Waits

  Roaring, Back Again

  Song: Misery Is the River of the World, Album: Blood Money, 2002

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• But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.

  Rivka Galchen

  Cereal, People, One Day

  Rivka Galchen (2014). “American Innovations: Stories”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Men, Knives

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• So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.

  Celia Thaxter

  Love, Eye, Iron

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.24, Applewood Books

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• All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

  Huey Long

  Boys, Thinking, Long

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• Intention appears to be something akin to a tuning fork, causing the tuning forks of other things in the universe to resonate at the same frequency

  Lynne McTaggart

  Tuning, Intention, Frequency

  FaceBook post by Lynne McTaggart from Apr 11, 2014

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• Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They
  cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can
  only represent what is unusual.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Editors, Giving, Safe

  "The Ball and the Cross". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition”, p.423, ReadHowYouWant.com

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