"I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable."

-- Brad Garrett

#Children Quotes #Home Quotes #Kids Quotes

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
“I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and careers can best be measured by the relationships we have with the people most dear to us - our family, friends, and coworkers. If we fail in this aspect of our lives, no matter how vast our worldly possessions or how high on the corporate ladder we climb, we will have achieved very little.”
“Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.”
“I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.”
“I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.”

Source : "Bobby Flay Talks Career, Passion, and Food Network Stardom". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2011.
“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press
“Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.”

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