Notciatoday Quotes & Sayings

Was she conscious of her talent? Hardly. If asked about her cooking, Grandma would look down at her hands which some glorious instinct sent on journeys to be gloved in flour, or to plumb disencumbered turkeys, wrist-deep in search of their animal souls. Her gray eyes blinked from spectacles warped by forty years of oven blasts and blinded with strewing of pepper and sage, so she sometimes flung cornstarch over steaks, amazingly tender, succulent steaks! And sometimes dropped apricots into meat loaves, cross-pollinated meats, herbs, fruits, vegetables with no prejudice, no tolerance for recipe or formula, save that at the final moment of delivery, mouths watered, blood thundered in response. Her hands then, like the hands of Great-grandma before her, were Grandma's mystery, delight, and life. She looked at them in astonishment, but let them live their life in the way they must absolutely lead it. — Ray Bradbury

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare. — Wayne Rooney

One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, "Look at the hips on her." I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didn't know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be "incorrect" on a woman's body. — Tina Fey

Without you, I am only a dream. — Jeffrey A. White

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind. — Paul Outerbridge

It's not an idea until you write it down. — Ivan Sutherland

I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground. — Brenna Yovanoff

If only people tried to connect with the heart the way they do with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. — D'Andre Lampkin

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. — Victor Hugo

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nothing — Geof Huth

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. — Arnold Bennett

Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance. — John Nolte

I'm tired, I'm hungry and I have a head in a bag," I warned him. "Do not fuck with me. — Karen Chance

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing. — Karl Kraus

Life's true face is the skull. — Nikos Kazantzakis