A chef’s palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook. Marco Pierre White Read Quote
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We’re spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they’ll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die. Lewis Black Read Quote
The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist’s research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it’s even less – closer to a tenth of a percent. Gayle Lynds Read Quote
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men. Andrew Weil Read Quote
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. Henry Ward Beecher Read Quote
One thing I’m super aware of in my music when I’m writing is: ‘Am I overcomplicating this?’ I’ll write a song about some deep existential quandary and explore all these dumb thought waves, and then think ‘Is it effective to say that? Or is it effective to say one simple thing that communicates the feeling better?’ Julien Baker Read Quote
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell Read Quote
Other than Peter Jackson doing ‘Lord of the Rings,’ I don’t get it when filmmakers follow up a movie with a sequel to the same movie. God bless ’em if they can be up for it, but that would drive me insane. Brad Bird Read Quote
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. Marilyn Monroe Read Quote
