28358 Quotes & Sayings

We have very professional, amazing chefs that are contestants. Most of them have their own restaurants and are settled, recognized chefs in Mexico. That gives the show [Top Chef] a different level completely; the gastronomic level is very high. It makes it all more interesting and the competition is just harder and harder. — Ana Claudia Talancon

You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about. — Bent Saether

We have the greatest chance of success if we recognize our vulnerability. — Sherry Turkle

That bookshops will one day disappear altogether and be replaced by mail order, that eventually books themselves would be finally and fully buried by that awful foe, so much cheaper and easier to carry: newspapers. — Matthew Pearl

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.. — Shannon Hale

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)] — Carl Sagan

She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest. — P.G. Wodehouse

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. — Taylor Swift

Maybe we should spend less time teaching kids to believe in Santa and more time teaching them to believe in themselves. — Brooke Hampton

Same way a serial killer chooses his weapons, only Aaron was the serial killer of souls. — Mary Ann D'Alto

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them. — Geoffrey West