Merwins Gumbo Recipe Quotes & Sayings

In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness. — Gao Xingjian

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be. — Haruki Murakami

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klima

The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail. — Paul Sloane

I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do ... And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives. — Linda Olsson

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living. — Serj Tankian

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. — Edward Gibbon

The thing is to live fully, all the time knowing that it could be your last breath. That takes some powerful faith. — Art Hochberg

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well. — Hamza Yusuf

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history. — Gloria Steinem

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. — George Santayana

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change? — Albert Belle

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood. — Tweet