"Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you."

-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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“Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.”
“I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.”
“Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit!”
“Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.”
“I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.”

Source : "Legendary Musicals Director Stanley Donen On Audrey Hepburn and 'Dancing With The Stars' (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.
“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes rightâ€”all that falls to them is so much gainâ€”all their geese are swansâ€”all their cards are trumpsâ€”toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
“Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.”
“In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.”

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