37 Quotes by Amy Stewart

At every turn we were losing something. We started scrambling to figure out what else we could do, and we found out that this special-needs shelter was set up.

Good morning! ... What grade are you in?

In 1897, a Scientific American reporter wrote that “mezcal is described as tasting like a mixture of gasoline, gin and electricity. Tequila is even worse, and is said to incite murder, riot and revolution.

Some growers believe that a particular type of music makes the plants grow faster, but most agree that the best strategy for the plants is to play whatever music the workers like best.

A poisonous seed will only kill you if you chew it and swallow.

But a male tree produces only small, well-behaved flowers – that is, if your definition of well behaved includes spewing plant sperm into the air for weeks on end.

Nobody likes my peas,” I said. “But we like having you do them,” she said.

Yes, well, he’s a man of limited intellect, and if he had more than one idea at a time they’d die from overcrowding.

Never had a larger committee been convened to make a decision about the purchase of mustard powder and the replacement of a claw hammer whose handle had split from age and misuse.