Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.
To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.
If you're not at the table, you're on the menu
The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.
Advice is like food, and teaching is a menu.
I like Washington a great deal. I enjoyed living there. But then I've enjoyed living almost everywhere I've ever been. I just find that it's a different menu wherever you go.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.
I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!
I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.
I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus. . . and I can plate and set the table.
I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.
If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.
If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.
I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets. "
