Medioteka Quotes & Sayings

A good action is preferable to an argument. — Voltaire

Life's like Scrabble, you shouldn't save your good letters, you've got to use them as soon as you get them. — T.R. Richmond

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted. — Rick Riordan

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant. — Jane Kenyon

So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. The business, as respected three-star chef Scott Bryan explains it, attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong. Maybe they didn't make it through high school, maybe they're running away from something-be it an ex-wife, a rotten family history, trouble with the law, a squalid Third World backwater with no opportunity for advancement. Or maybe, like me, they just like it here. — Anthony Bourdain

His stomach, a packed elevator, began a slow descent toward his feet. — Jojo Moyes