Periodical Online Quotes & Sayings

I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet. — Wylie Dufresne

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out. — Scot Armstrong

In Lacon's world, direct questions were the height of bad taste, but direct answers were worse. — John Le Carre

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected - that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma - that push and pull - is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make. — Kara Walker

I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host. — Andy Cohen

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth. — Dan Shechtman

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. — Jaime Lerner

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names. — Jeff Goldblum

Everybody's just got their nose in their own soup. They say they care, but they don't put poems in books for me to read ... They talk to me about 'adjusting my expectations for the world.' And how I need to be realistic and just accept that this is how things work and that life is unfair ... I know, I know, I know. — Kristopher Jansma

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. — Osbert Sitwell

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts. — Michael Dummett