"In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed."

-- Ricky Jay

#Winter Quotes #Hands Quotes #Entertainment Quotes

“Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.”
“On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.”
“Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.”

Source : Philip Rieff, Arnold M. Eisen, Gideon Lewis-Kraus (2008). “The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity”, p.69, University of Virginia Press
“it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1849). “Life in the sick-room. Essays. By an invalid [i.e. H. Martineau] ... Third edition”, p.138
“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”
“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
“God made Cabernet Sauvignon, whereas the Devil made Pinot Noir.”
“But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.”

Source : Sophie Hannah (2009). “Little Face: Culver Valley Crime”, p.328, Hachette UK

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