Capons Recipes Quotes & Sayings

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. — Nancy Pearl

It was all down, down, down, gradually
ruin and levelling and disappearance. Then it was all up, up, up, gradually, as seeds grew to saplings, and saplings to forest trees, and bramble and fern came creeping in to help. — Kenneth Grahame

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [ ... ] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist. — Jimmy Wales

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have. — Publilius Syrus

Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain. — Kwame Alexander

Greatness depends on where you are coming from. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

Well aren't you just a ray of fucking sunshine. — Lauren Gilley

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. — Oscar Wilde

The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works. — Atul Gawande

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. — Alexander McCall Smith

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling. — Penelope Gilliatt

As a child, I was constantly being sent on playdates with other kids - the shrinks insisted I interact with cohorts. That's what my meeting with Lyle was like: those first loose, horrible ten minutes, when the grown-ups have left, and neither kid knows what the other one wants, so you stand there, near the TV they've told you to keep off, fiddling with the antenna. — Gillian Flynn