Towser Glenturret Quotes & Sayings

Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling orthography. You spell induce, enduce; and grandeur, you spell grandure; two faults, of which few of my house-maids would have been guilty. I must tell you, that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters, or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix a ridicule upon him for the rest of his life; and I know a man of quality, who never recovered the ridicule of having spelled wholesome without the w. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am a Hound of God. I travel my own road, into Hell and out of it. — Neil Gaiman

It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be. — Joyce Brothers

Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time. — George W. Bush

I am uncertain whether I took my first steps on clay soil or sand, but I know I have long wondered if home is the place from which we come or the place we are headed. — Christie Purifoy

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage. — Bindi Irwin

I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white privilege, mortality comedy of John Hodgman!' That's me! I'm going to play a sad Handsome Family song at the end and I guarantee you everyone is going to love it because, sometimes, you need a grown man or woman to tell you what you like. — John Hodgman

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. — Virginia Woolf

We spend our waning strength to no avail. For till we be sure where the Dragon will pass, it is vain to climb.' 'But — J.R.R. Tolkien

I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity. — Abigail Friedman

Reading is a way to quench your thirst for knowledge. — Michelle Johnson

I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. — Jim Butcher

When you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real ... — John Geddes