Lebbeus Clarehanna Quotes & Sayings

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people. — Angela Merkel

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken. — Fred Brooks

It's so dreadful to be poor! — Louisa May Alcott

Demi-glace. There are a lot of ways to make demi-glace, but I recommend you simply take your already reduced meat stock, add some red wine, toss in some shallots and fresh thyme and a bay leaf and peppercorns, and slowly, slowly simmer it and reduce it again until it coats a spoon. Strain. Freeze this stuff in an ice-cube tray, pop out a cube or two as needed, and you are in business - you can rule the world. And remember, when making a sauce with demi-glace, don't forget to monter au beurre. Chervil, — Anthony Bourdain

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions. — Michael Marshall Smith

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm. — Ann Radcliffe

Going out of the way for a customer increases sales. — Rajen Jani

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own. — Rudyard Kipling

The moon is the lamp he paints by; His canvas the window pane; His brush is a frozen snowflake; Jack Frost the artist's name. — C.C. Long

Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. — Robert Moss

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf