Joy Yee Evanston Quotes & Sayings

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. — Ambrose Bierce

The dish that changed my life was tom yum kum. You start with a pot of water, add lemongrass, lime leaves, lime juice, coriander, mushrooms, and shrimp; ten minutes later, you have the most incredible, intense soup. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again. — Ronald Reagan

My boyfriend? I thought I'd resigned myself to the fact that we weren't going to be together. And now I'm thinking of him as my boyfriend? — Sarina Bowen

You'd feel rather guilty when all those poor mortal women combust at the sight of you. — Sarah J. Maas

Philosophers who have denied that there are any innate ideas probably meant only that all ideas were copies of our impressions. [W]hat is meant by 'innate'? If 'innate' is equivalent to 'natural', then all the perceptions and ideas of the mind must be granted to be innate or natural, in whatever sense we take the latter word, whether in opposition to what is uncommon, what is artificial, or what is miraculous. If innate means 'contemporary with our birth', the dispute seems to be frivolous - there is no point in enquiring when thinking begins, whether before, at, or after our birth. — David Hume

Is it the pauses, not the parties, that create the friendship? — Lynette Chiang

In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces. — J.B. McGee