Scherbel Surveying Quotes & Sayings

Thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating. — Michael Pollan

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. — Emily Mortimer

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility. — James Gleick

It is always a difficult issue for each of us to trust one another yet we expect to be trusted by others. — Auliq Ice

A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt. — Ned Sublette

Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more. — Kaley Cuoco

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am. — Peter Fonda

Music can be a source of escapism. — Danielle De Niese

I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy — Edith Wharton

The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like. — George W. Bush

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure. — Jean De La Bruyere

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society — Edward Burnett Tylor

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are. — Ioan Gruffudd

The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action. — Chuck Jones