"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."

-- Calvin Trillin

#Food Quotes #Feet Quotes #Metamorphosis Quotes

“Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.”
“We should fight [mass immigration], we should stop it, we should be proud of who we are and define what we are not.”
“We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.”
“I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?”
“I love pop music. Who doesn't?”
“The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter”
“Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.”
“There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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