Barbecue Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

“People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they made grew louder and uglier. It became difficult to…

— Norton Juster

“During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.”

— Shirley Jackson

“They listened for a while to the perfect music of the wind and rain and night. To the fire and the simmering kettle.”

— Edward Abbey

“The crowd was itself. There was no swaying it, squeezing through or reasoning with it. You breathed with it and you sang its songs.…

— Markus Zusak

“After supper was over and the toasts had been drunk, the boy Pablo was called in to play for the company while the gentlemen…

— Willa Cather

“And then, abruptly, the voice turned to a different tone—sharper, harsher, more desperate. Then it hushed altogether. The sensation was like sitting by a…

— Bella Forrest

“The music acted as a marinade in my weary spirit.”

— Pat Conroy

“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really? How did that happen?’ ‘it all just drained out.”

— Francine Rivers

“For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. What made it sit at the edge of the…

— George Orwell

“Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.”

— Greil Marcus

“They really thought what other people sing in songs.”

— Boris Pasternak

“But as they stared into "The Star Spangled Banner," the music was blessedly drowned out by the squeal and moan of the barking train,…

— Victoria Wilcox