Ashmolean Gift Quotes & Sayings

Dinner that night is a feast of flavor. To celebrate the successful exorcism, Kagura has cooked several more dishes than the shrine's usual, simple fare- fragrant onigiri, balls of rice soaked in green tea, with umeboshi- salty and pickled plums- as filling. There is eggplant simmered in clear soup, green beans in sesame sause, and burdock in sweet-and-sour dressing. The mood is festive. — Rin Chupeco

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by. — Harvey MacKay

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. — Jacques Barzun

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it. — Amanda Peet

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame. — Seneca The Younger