"I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m."

-- Natalie Coughlin

#Wake Up Quotes #Breakfast Quotes #Pool Quotes

“Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.”
“I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.”

Source : "Jonah Hill: ‘Being Shot In Slow Motion Doing Cocaine By Martin Scorsese’ Was Acting Dream" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.
“If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might - to work very, very hard - to make the world a better place, and if all your efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'”
“Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.”

Source : "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.
“Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.”
“First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.”
“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
“Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.”

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