Tastedive Quotes & Sayings

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves ... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself. — Isaac Marion

We yield at once with humbled mien,
Because, with all our faults, we love our Queen. — W.S. Gilbert

She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind. — Terry Pratchett

The smallest flowers still have to stretch to bloom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West. — George Halas

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot. — Patrice O'Neal

He couldn't put on a coaching session to save his life. I've spoken to people about him and he can barely lay out cones. — Joey Barton

Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations
accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring feet on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact. If the boiler burst, if a policeman climbed in at the window waving a sword, Henry and Caroline would bring the situation to heel by their massive experience of normal boilers and normal policemen. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Belief in the Law of Small Numbers. — Daniel Kahneman

To these qualities must be added one which is of great importance, this is discretion; humble as it seems, it has often brought about successes in which talent failed and genius did not succeed. Discretion in the great affairs of the world does wonders, and safety depends frequently and is chiefly derived from it.... — Queen Victoria

A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine. — Grace Kelly

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. — Truman Capote

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for? — George Bernard Shaw

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity. — Meister Eckhart

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much. — Gordon Parks