Erich Von D Niken Quotes & Sayings

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. — Albrecht Durer

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work. — Dyllan McGee

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. — Alexis Soyer

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible. — Viggo Mortensen

He was obsessed not only with the acquisition of knowledge, but with its retention. — George R R Martin

I live in the paradise of my imagination. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt. — Mickey Mantle

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

He began talking about the Vietnam War and about the children who were being killed by the American forces there, and he told her that if she was a Christian, as she claimed to be, she ought to be indignant over the monstrous crimes the Yankees were committing. Martha told him that according to him and others like him the Americans were responsible for all the evil in the world, but people like him never talked about the way the Communists from North Vietnam were killing innocent people as they invaded South Vietnam. She said that it was never the men that caused the war who died - they sat comfortably behind their desks while the poor wretches they sent out to fight were dying. — Armando Valladares

The grass on the other side will always be greener.
But, you will want to go on that side to check how green your side was. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit! — Julia Child