Gourmande Quotes & Sayings

Meditation is a science, not a superstition. Meditation — Osho

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being. — Tony Kushner

There was something intoxicating in the anonymity of it all. — Jennifer E. Smith

I believe in Spinoza's God, who revealed himself in the harmony of all being, not in the God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of men - a more subtle religious view embraced by — Carl Sagan

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence ... Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. — William Ellery Channing

Truth disappears with the telling of it. — Lawrence Durrell

I don't hate other women. Let me rephrase that: I hate other women and men - people in general can be annoying - but I've never disliked a woman for being beautiful. — Iliza Shlesinger

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney

If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers. — Sahara Sanders

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. — Plato

I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies. — Scott Aukerman

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. — Alfred North Whitehead

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives. — Betty Shine

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. — Clint Eastwood