Using words to describe proverb

 Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef
  Tom Robbins

 I was a little kid and I was fascinated by the roast beef going around the spit. So I took out my little plastic comb and stuck it in the meat. At one point the comb caught on the string used to tie the roast beef. So I went, 'Oh, oh,' and I didn't want to break the motor. So I said, 'OK,' and I walked away.
  Jay Leno

 Every Sunday we have pan-fried chicken and we will have an alternative meal, roast beef, roast pork, baked ham, something like that, keeping in tradition with our family.

 If Roast Beef Could Fly, A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance. If Roast Beef Could Fly,
  Jay Leno

 Oh! The roast beef of England, / And old England's roast beef.
  Henry Fielding

 Mustard's no good without roast beef.
  Chico Marx

 A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
  Humphrey Bogart

 We gave him probably $5,000 to sign and a couple of roast beef sandwiches.

 It's a roast beef dinner such as your favorite aunt would make for you on a Sunday in the '40s.

 John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

 The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
  Samuel Johnson

 It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

 You can't describe it. I can't describe it and I'm a pretty wordy guy. But I have no words to describe what I saw (Saturday).

 If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

 The Miranda rule has degenerated into being a set of magic words, ... And when we get to trial, it's not so important that the suspect confessed voluntarily, but whether or not those words were said at the right time.


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