Prousts Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything. — Mickey Rooney

The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live in, but rather to uncover new phenomena not yet imagined, and perhaps modify profoundly our basic concepts of space and time. — Lyman Spitzer

My friends are trying to get me to go out on blind dates. Big 'NO' to that because all my friends are a bunch of lying geeks. They're always like, 'Brian, you're really gonna dig this girl. She's got Traci Lords' eyes, Michelle Pfeiffer's nose, Kim Basinger's lips.' Yeah, they always forget to tell me she's also got Charlie Brown's head. — Brian Posehn

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions. — Ann Brashares

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ... — William Makepeace Thackeray

There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff. — George Foreman

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden? — Christine Fonseca

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST — Anthony Trollope

Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea. — Laurie Beth Jones

I have the brain the size of a planet and you want to talk to me about life — Douglas Adams

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy. — Claire Danes

The next time some desperate parents beg me to take care of their children," I raged, sawing at my slice of chicken breast, "I will ask them for a full accounting of all the boxes of cereal in their pantry. And if they don't have at least three types of sugary cereal, then I will say no. No, I will not babysit for your whiny children in your cereal-deprived sham of a household. — Leila Sales