Orada Recepti Quotes & Sayings

To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery. — Edvard Grieg

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. — Bill Bryson

We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies. — David H. Murdock

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help. — Kathleen Blanco

Watch out when the bad treats you well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. — Lincoln Steffens

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race. — Karl Shapiro

I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery. — Ian McKellen

I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune. — Umberto Eco

There is a well-known joke - at least well known in mathematics - about how mathematicians work. A mathematician and a Starbucks barista are each placed in front of a stove with a kettle and a nearby faucet and told to make boiling water. Both do the same thing. They fill the kettle with water from the faucet, light the stove with a match, and place the water-filled kettle on the stove. Mission accomplished. The mathematician and the Starbucks barista are next placed in front of a stove with a kettle that they are told is filled with clean water and told to make boiling water yet again. The barista lifts the kettle off the stove for a moment, lights the stove, and puts the kettle back on. The mathematician lifts the kettle off the stove, pours out the water into a sink, puts the newly emptied kettle back on the stove and says, "The problem has been reduced to the previously solved case. Q.E.D. — Stuart Rojstaczer

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation. — Judy Collins

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core. — Steven Erikson