Mchaggis Scotland Quotes & Sayings

I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors. — Yasujiro Ozu

In other words, more than seventy per cent of American divorces are granted because husbands and wives can not adapt themselves to each other in the matter of how they shall spend their LEISURE hours. — Elsie Lincoln Benedict

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. — Douglas Coupland

No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist. — Janine Di Giovanni

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both. — Annie Dillard

Patriotism never demands obedience to the state but rather obedience to the principles of liberty. — Ron Paul

If you are an introvert, you are born
with a temperament that craves to be alone, delights in meaningful connections, thinks before speaking and observes before approaching. If you are an introvert, you thrive in the inner
sanctuary of the mind, heart and spirit, but shrink in the external world of noise, drama and chaos. As an introvert, you are sensitive, perceptive, gentle and reflective. You prefer to operate behind the scenes, preserve your precious energy and influence the world in a quiet,
but powerful way. — Aletheia Luna

An obvious example of this reverse causation would be pregnant women, who are driven to fatten by hormonal changes. This hormonal drive induces hunger and lethargy as a result. In the context of evolution, these expanded fat stores would assure the availability of the necessary calories to nurse the infants after birth and assure the viability of the offspring. — Gary Taubes

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report. — Ilka Chase

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe. — Babatunde Adebimpe

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent. — Ambrose Bierce

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it. — Richard Paul Evans

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller. — James Surowiecki

New York is all about people and the things people make. — John Cariani