Toklas Brownies Quotes & Sayings

Nothing in the world was more important than my daughter's happiness, even though I'd never understood why she always had to choose the most difficult and painful of paths. But a mother doesn't have to understand anything, she simply has to love and protect. And feel proud. Knowing that we could give her almost everything, she nevertheless set off early in search of her independence. She'd had her stumbles and her failures, but she insisted on facing any storms alone. — Paulo Coelho

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it. — James E. Casey

Can anyone be utterly without thoughtfulness? The answer is yes. — Philip Roth

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category. — Ben Bernanke

I'm a girl. Every girl pretends she's a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of 'happily ever after. — Alex Flinn

Fists and rocks and clubs can do a limited amount of harm, but a gun is entirely different. It makes a weak man feel like a hero and a strong man feel as if he is immortal, and it removes the last inhibition a killer might feel. You don't have to be close to a man to put a bullet in him. You don't have to have to see his face. — Elizabeth Peters

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things. — Yotam Ottolenghi