Acocella Law Quotes & Sayings

We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough. — Joel Fuhrman

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner. — Bill Buford

If you don't jump, the wings never come. — Bruce Coville

This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy. — Hollis Seamon

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge which may then be distorted by particular interests and judgements, although this is certainly possible; it is also that without particular interests we would have no knowledge at all, because we would not see the point of bothering to get to know anything. Interests are constitutive of our knowledge, not merely prejudices which imperil it. The claim that knowledge should be 'value-free' is itself a value-judgement. — Terry Eagleton

What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent? — Mike Mason

Have I ever told you how scary it is that you think of heels in terms of their possible shiv potential? — Jennifer Estep

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

We need only circumstantial evidence to fry you. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

For while they'd stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls
even if you'd once been best friends
was now just that, outsiders. Families had their ways. You took note of how other people raised their kids, even other people you loved, and it seemed all wrong. The culture and practices of one's own family were the only way, for better or worse. Who could say why a family decided to have a certain style, to tell the jokes it did, to put up its particular refrigerator magnets? — Meg Wolitzer

When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. — Herodotus

I love talking about movies that mean something to me. — Jena Malone

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does. — Erin Morgenstern

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. — Lawrence R. Klein