Ramps Food Quotes & Sayings

This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don't get mad. — Matt Ruff

The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her. The flowers withered under her breath and the touch of her hand was leprous for the leaves. The plants whose growth is belief, whose breathing is hope, whose immobility is confidence and whose calyx is prayer, the plants who kept watch into the night, hated this women with the secret force of stars. — Hendrik Cramer

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch. — Lee Child

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think. — Terry Pratchett

Goyen there. Sadly not for sale." "Van Goyen? I would have sworn that was a Corot." "From here, yes, you might." He was pleased at the comparison. "Very similar painters - Vincent — Donna Tartt

No-one loves another
More than he loves whatever
another within may have
That is part of one's self — Fernando Pessoa

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live — Lin Yutang

Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving! — Israelmore Ayivor

You've got to look out for number one. If you're really worried about not being spoiled, just pound on through that book guys. Just read the shit out of it. — Veronica Belmont

Everything stopped that day, literally. I even stopped growing....Injured and traumatized children--they quite often fail to grow to normal height....Resources are diverted. The growth system shuts down....Accidents, catastrophes--something like seventy-five percent of disaster victims are convinced there were warning signs they brushed off....If you trace it back, you can see the mistake--the point you would have had a different outcome....To see the mistake, the place where you went wrong, and not be able to go back and fix it? Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, p. 615 — Donna Tartt

Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that. — Sarah Chalke

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear. — Bertrand Russell

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire. — Akio Morita

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake. — Bonnie Jensen