"I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it."

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Source : "In Conversation: Andre Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

David Chang

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“I'd have to swing by the house first to change into something more comfortable.â€ â€œThat's fine,â€ he said. â€œI'm all for you changing into something more comfortable.â€ â€œI'll bet you are,â€ she said knowingly. â€œNow, don't start getting fresh,â€ he said, feigning offense. â€œI don't think we know each other well enough for that.”
“Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.”

Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.44, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too.”
“I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.”
“If I didn't have [a] wife, maybe I can say, 'Yeah, I'm disappointed I'm not maybe good looking.' ... I don't know about China, but in Russia, I still look good.”
“They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.”
“"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.”
“A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.”

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