Myhrvold Modernist Quotes & Sayings

Water. Deep water. Infinitely deep water of the primordial ocean, where everything is possible. — Paulo Coelho

Man is often not defeated by the storm itself, but by his incapacity to handle the storm! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less! — Nathan Myhrvold

I don't know. Is that good-different, or I-should-come-with-a-warning-label-different? — Melissa A. Craven

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera. — Matt Smith

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them. — Paula Danziger

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable. — Jean Vanier

She wasn't pretty, but there were moments when I found her beautiful. — David Levithan

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power. — A.J. Darkholme

In the old pre-technology days, it would have been almost impossible to replicate Facebook or Twitter. The closest you could get would be to mail dozens of postcards a day to everybody you know, each with a brief message about yourself like: "Finally got that haircut I've been putting off." Or: "Just had a caramel frappuccino. Yum!" The people receiving these postcards would have naturally assumed you were a moron with a narcissism disorder. But today, thanks to Facebook and Twitter, you are seen as a person engaging in 'social networking'. — Dave Barry

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind. — Guy Kawasaki

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not. — Grimes