Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. Derren Brown Read Quote
I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view. Rick Moranis Read Quote
Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. Mary Douglas Read Quote
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident. William Morris Hunt Read Quote
No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler. Atul Gawande Read Quote
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same. Iris Murdoch Read Quote
For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love. Adolfo Perez Esquivel Read Quote
