Lonesomestonemilling Quotes & Sayings

Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies — James Patterson

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat. — Carre Otis

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first finger-bowl.
The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. Mrs Guinea never said anything, and it was only much later, when I told a debutant I knew at college about dinner, that I learned what I had done. — Sylvia Plath

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know. — Rita Rudner

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety. — John Schlesinger

Their menu points out that: "It took Vikings many centuries to create the smorgasbord. It brings you the fish of the sea, the meats of the range... the fruits of the land and the wings of the sky in a gracious gesture of hospitality and welcomes you to the meal that follows.... — William C. Speidel Jr.

[a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc. — Anna Julia Cooper

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree. — Donatella Versace

I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath. — Heather O'Neill

What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge. — Jean Piaget

I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn't? If you don't have a few scars, you haven't really lived. — Lexi Blake

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. — John James Audubon

There are many people, many worlds who believe in supernaturalism in one form or another ... religion, if you like the word better. We may disagree with them in one way or another, but we are as likely to be wrong in our disbelief as they in their belief. In any case, there is no disgrace in such belief and my questions were not intended as insults. — Isaac Asimov

I usually put it aside, however good it may be, after, sometimes, eighty or a hundred pages, or less, having in some sense not only absorbed its nature but saturated myself with it. — John Freeman

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first. — S. N. Goenka