Kaiseki Meal Quotes & Sayings

I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music. — William Shakespeare

Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them! — Israelmore Ayivor

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.' — John McCain

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it's difficult to score. — Paul Arden

Sometimes you caught a break, but outright freebies?
Never. — Stephen King

Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own. — Gautama Buddha

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time. — Thomas Keller

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing — Giacomo Casanova

Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor -- it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest. And so enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. It must be rape so regular as to be industrial. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us. — Matthew Carter

(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is not so much to read fast, as to read each book at the speed it deserves. It is as regrettable to spend too much time on some books as it to read others too quickly. There are books you know well, just from flicking through them, others you only grasp at second or third reading, and others again will will last you a lifetime. — Jacques Bonnet

Fuck the Inners, and fuck their magic Jell-O ... Just wearing their fancy arm probably turns you into an asshole, — James S.A. Corey

I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea. — Martin Henderson

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say 'when'! — P.G. Wodehouse