"While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand there are things I would far rather do than spend time in a kitchen."

“People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'”

“It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.”

“The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,”

“If knowledge is not put into practice, it does not benefit one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri from Jul 30, 2013

“I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.”

“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.”

Source : "Literary and Historical Miscellanies" by George Bancroft, New York: Harper, (p. 430), 1855.

“Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.”

“The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.”

Source : "Ellsworth Kelly creates from all angles". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. May 10, 2009.