Venison Quotes

• I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

  Samuel Pepys

  Food, Home, Wife

  Samuel Pepys (2000). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Great Restaurants, Littles

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• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  Ted Nugent

  Player, Guitar, Years

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Fowl, Taste, Hungry

  Lynn Flewelling (2010). “Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series”, p.167, Spectra

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• Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Criticism

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• Venison and venery defeated me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Defeated

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• I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

  Courteney Cox

  Thinking, People, Sushi

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• I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

  Barry Venison

  Soccer, Football, Intellectual

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• The Croatians don't play well without the ball.

  Barry Venison

  Football, Play, Balls

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• In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clothes, Rocks, Car

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

  Lewis Carroll

  House, Dining, Jelly

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Errors, Trying, Spirit

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• All flesh is not venison.

  George Herbert

  Flesh

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Dark, Night

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.172, Bantam

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• Princes are venison in Heaven.

  George Herbert

  Heaven

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.339

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• She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  Laura Riding

  Strange Places, People, Kind

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

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• The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

  Emile Zola

  Food, Smell, Cooking

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