Cornbreads Houston Quotes & Sayings

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves. — Henry David Thoreau

Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under. — Edith Wharton

It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption. — E.L. Doctorow

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out. — David Talbot

I love you more than fairy tales. — Seanan McGuire

There needs to be more Kander & Ebbs and Rodgers & Harts and people like that out there. But, it's so hard to get something looked at and on. — Ruthie Henshall

Thus the truth - that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and which is so natural to man - this truth, in order to force a way to man's consciousness, had to struggle not merely against the obscurity with which it was expressed and the intentional and unintentional distortions surrounding it, but also against deliberate violence, which by means of persecutions and punishments sought to compel men to accept religious laws authorized by the rulers and conflicting with the truth. — Leo Tolstoy

If you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think? — Armistead Maupin

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man. — Jose Andres

I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? — Russell Wilson

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something. — Karl Urban

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. — Kenneth G. Wilson

The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired. — Joseph Epstein

I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there. — Zach Galligan