“Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.”
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 1, Getting Away With It, p. 1
“Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.”
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 1, Getting Away With It, p. 1
“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
A Leaf of Spearmint, III <br class="br"> Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)
“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Red China will make Libya look like a picnic if that government feels threatened.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011), Q&A
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
“Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England's roast beef!”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
The Grub Street Opera (1731), Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Isn’t freedom even this pig skin, which roasted like this crunches so nicely under the teeth?”
Vinko Vrbanić (1951)
Furmani-Sokolov let, 2011, concluding statement Sokolov let
Freedom
“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
Alice Walker book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple