Toshimi Murakami Quotes & Sayings

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt. — Julia McNair Wright

It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood. — Toby Young

Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while. — Arlo Guthrie

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose. — Henry Ward Beecher

My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling. — Michael Franti

Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful. — Glenn Tipton

Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire.
Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone. — Kimberly Pauley

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging. — Charles Darwin

Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we exist in it. There must be a necessity superior to our conceptions. — Joseph Conrad

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door — Steve Martin