Krikum Quotes & Sayings

Now, why was diagonal cutting better than cutting straight across? Because the corner of a triangularly cut slice gave you an ideal first bite. In the case of rectangular toast, you had to angle the shape into your mouth, as you angle a big dresser through a hall doorway: you had to catch one corner of your mouth with one corner of the toast and then carefully turn the toast, drawing the mouth open with it so that its other edge could clear; only then did you chomp down. Also, with a diagonal slice, most of the tapered bite was situated right up near the front of your mouth, where you wanted it to be as you began to chew; with the rectangular slice, a burdensome fraction was riding out of control high on the dome of the tongue. One subway stop before mine, I concluded that there had been logic behind the progress away from the parallel and toward the diagonal cut, and that the convention was not, as it might first have appeared, merely an affection of short-order cooks. — Nicholson Baker

How much finer things are in composition than alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need. — Robin S. Sharma

I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness. — Joel Madden

The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening. — Erik Larson

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it. — Jason Pierre-Paul

Even nothing cannot last forever. — Neil Gaiman

Maybe it is not the 'mad' people who should be fixed in order to function in our society, but our society that needs to be fixed so that we do not interfere with their function. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

It wasn't poverty that drove me on. — Aleksandr Kuprin