Balous Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

Well, and he supposed a duel with a drunken midget was as good a test as any. — Diana Gabaldon

But why do you write? - A: I am not one of those who think with an inky pen in their hand, much less one of those who in front of an open inkwell abandon themselves to their passions while they sit in a chair and stare at the paper. I am annoyed by and ashamed of my writing; writing is for me a pressing and embarrassing need, and to speak of it even in a parable disgusts me. B: But why, then, do you write? - A: Well, my friend, to be quite frank: so far, I have not discovered any other way of getting rid of my thoughts. - B: And why do you want to get rid of them? - A: Why I want to? Do I want to? I must. - B: Enough! Enough! 94 — Friedrich Nietzsche

You have no idea how deep the level of my depravity is right now." He chuckled. "Are you subtly telling me you're the wolf in sheep's clothing?" "There's no subtle about it. I'm flat out telling you." His eyes roamed over me hungrily, and I knew he was being serious. For whatever reason, I wasn't scared. I felt safe with him. — Lacey Weatherford

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous ... phases of the stage. But this day is fading ... We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth — Ruth St. Denis

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse. — Dorothy Dunnett

I avoid contemporary TV ... politics ... art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter. — Dean Koontz

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you. — Carrie Underwood

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed. — Paul Reubens

The realms of love and light, anything is possible — Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England. — Peter James