Brillat Cheese Quotes & Sayings

Brillat-Savarin claimed to have seen the vicar of Bregnier eat the following within forty-five minutes: a bowl of soup, two dishes of boiled beef, a leg of mutton, a handsome capon, a generous salad, a ninety-degree wedge from a good-sized white cheese, a bottle of wine, and a carafe of water. If Brillat-Savarin was not exaggerating, the amount of food eaten by the vicar in less than an hour would have provided enough calories for a day or more. It is hard to imagine a wild chimpanzee achieving such a feat. — Richard W. Wrangham

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend. — Tsegaye Gebre Medhin

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness. — Mike Huckabee

It's great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made. — Michael Cera

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard so it can make its way into your everyday life. — Evan Peters

Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but it turns far too many of them into tigers. — Hugh MacLennan

I am a criminal mastermind, I am here to take down this regime. — Marissa Meyer

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred. — Thornton Wilder

I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it. — Ella Henderson

Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul. — Gaston Bachelard