Food Writing Prompts Quotes & Sayings

Those who give up on their dreams shouldn't influence you to give up on yours. — Rita Zahara

Everyone was at Martin Freeman's house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman's wife] was crying and so was I and I tried to laugh it off but that turned into this enormous sob in front of everyone and I just thought, oh brilliant. I just found it terribly moving. Martin is just amazing in that last bit, it's beautiful, that kind of incomprehension and devastation, it's fantastic, with his sort of military shuffle at the grave. Fantastic. — Louise Brealey

All you need to do is hold on tight... and believe — Stephen King

I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint. — John Travolta

Western tourists transform Thailand into its own little planet of indulgence. Time has no relevance and debauchery, no consequence. — Maggie Young

Why does chronic self-administration of cocaine reduce the density of dopamine receptors? It's a simple matter of brain economics. The brain is accustomed to a certain level of dopamine activity. If it is flooded with artificially high dopamine levels, it seeks to restore the equilibrium by reducing the number of receptors where the dopamine can act. This mechanism helps to explain the phenomenon of tolerance, by which the user has to inject, ingest, or inhale higher and higher doses of a substance to get the same effect as before. — Gabor Mate

I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting. — Tracy Morgan

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece. — Robert Heilbroner

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes. — Vladimir Bukovsky

We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl". — Miguel Ruiz

The Devil's out of fashion. — Dodie Smith

A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left. — Joan Didion

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush. — Gore Vidal

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast. — Walter J. Phillips