Ramsays Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. — Lewis H. Lapham

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere. — Daniel Berrigan

To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you ... who's to say how any of us would deal with that. — Teddy Thompson

At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life. — Eckhart Tolle

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there. — Laurie Metcalf

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it. — Erik Naggum

In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of the culture, and demands respect. — Sean S. Kamali

Freedom as a given seems the very antithesis of death. While we dread death, we generally consider freedom to be unequivocally positive. Has not the history of Western civilization been punctuated with yearnings for freedom, even driven by it? Yet freedom from an existential perspective is bonded to anxiety in asserting that, contrary to everyday experience, we do not enter into, and ultimately leave, a well-structured universe with an eternal grand design. Freedom means that one is responsible for one's own choices, actions, one's own life situation. Though the word responsible may be used in a variety of ways, I prefer Sartre's definition: to be responsible is to "be the author of," each of us being thus the author of his or her own life design. We are free to be anything but unfree: we are, Sartre would say, condemned to freedom. — Irvin D. Yalom

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant. — John Berger

I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life. — Sean Lennon

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? — Joshua E. Leyenhorst