Parmentier Quotes & Sayings

The white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup. — Pat Barker

The Boardroom Paradox: Harden the softest like culture, and soften the hardest like number. — Pearl Zhu

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there. — David Lynch

I began to ponder; this life we had for ourselves, Eric and I, it felt like the opposite of Potage Parmentier. It was easy enough to keep on with the soul-sucking jobs; at least it saved having to make a choice. But how much longer could I take such an easy life? Quicksand was easy. Hell, death was easy. Maybe that's why my synapses had started snapping at the sight of potatoes and leeks in the Korean deli. Maybe that was what was plucking deep down in my belly whenever I thought of Julia Child's book. Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be a part of something that was not easy, just simple. — Julie Powell

There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is. — Sun Tzu

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle. — Terry Pratchett

Awareness isn't something we own; awareness isn't something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are. — Adyashanti

The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would. — Ellen DeGeneres

I hate to tell you, dragon, but that's an integral part of the whole usiness," he whispered. "If you're afraid to touch me then we're not going to get very far."
She lifted her head to look at him. "I thought I could lie back and let you ravish me," she said with complete honesty.
He shook his head, the smile hovering around his lips, his eyes intent. "This is a cooperative effort, my love. You have to do your part. — Anne Stuart

The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings. But in the increasingly spiritistic inclination of physics itself, Behaviorism and Fundamentalism had found a meeting place. Since the ultimate stuff of the physical universe was now said to be multitudinous and arbitrary "quanta" of the activity "spirits", how easy was it for the materialistic and the spiritistic to agree? At heart, indeed, they were never very far apart in mood, though opposed in doctrine. The real cleavage was between the truly spiritual view on the one hand, and the spiritistic and materialistic on the other. Thus the most materialistic of Christian sects and the most doctrinaire of scientific sects were not long in finding a formula to express their unity, their denial of all those finer capacities which had emerged to be the spirit of man. — Olaf Stapledon

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy. — Julie Powell

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself. — Bo Bennett

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes. — Terry Bradshaw