Homely Food Quotes & Sayings

Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man! — Milton Friedman

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. — Horace

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them. — Matthew McConaughey

I will never ever sell Neverland — Michael Jackson

Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, 'a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.' Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful. — Walter A. Shewhart

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with. — Neil Gaiman

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary] — Margaret Thatcher

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other. — Laz Alonso

Soon the cottage was filled with the familiar, homely smell of frying onions. It escaped from the stove, crept through the kitchen, sniffed along the bottom of the closed front room door and wound its way stealthily up the crooked staircase, even under the door of Anna's bedroom. But even this, the most delicious, hungry-making smell in the world, was unable to rouse her. — Joan G. Robinson

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. — John B. S. Haldane

As every married person here knows, love is a rotten substitute for respect. — Kurt Vonnegut

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight ...
[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells ... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of
meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us — Sappho