• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.

Gene Weingarten

Related Topics

OrderSidesSteak

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

| Next

More Gene Weingarten Quotes

• 

  One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  BooksDoctorsKings
• 

  My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  BlackLocalMiddleSchool
• 

  When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  CuteDaughterSenior
• 

  We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  BelieveMonsterPeople
• 

  When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  FakeMeanNews
• 

  Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  MenPeopleThinking
• 

  The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  AlbatrossMeanVerbs
• 

  I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  DrugKidsThinking
• 

  Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  ChangeGreatestManyWon
• 

  I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  AdvertisingMenRidiculous
• 

  I think politics is everything.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  EverythingPoliticsThinking
• 

  The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  CynicalIntelligentPeople
• 

  I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  EyeGirlGoodMakeupWomen
• 

  Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  PeopleReasonWay
• 

  The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  PeopleTrumpVoting
• 

  It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.

  GENE WEINGARTEN
  OrderSidesSteak