"Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth."

-- Daniel Handler

#Tree Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Branches Quotes

“Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.”

Source : Ben Jonson (2014). “Epicoene or The Silent Woman”, p.63, A&C Black
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.”
“The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.”
“One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.”
“Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.”
“To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.”
“I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.”
“In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.”

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