"How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand."

-- Jeff Smith

#Food Quotes #Godly Quotes #Eggplant Quotes

“Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.”

Source : Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.
“In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.”
“Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.”
“I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.”
“It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.”
“Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1913). “The Psychology of Laughter”
“Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.”
“When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.”

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