"In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say."

-- Julia Child

#People Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Lovely Quotes

“I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.”
“... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.”
“I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.”
“I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.”
“I think children need to be nurtured for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be. I think that's when those ideas come into your head of like, What should I feel in this moment? It's because someone told you, "Your instinct was incorrect." And you're like, Why? Why is that wrong?”
“We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.”
“In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seatâ€”and some smartass had sold them guns.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2012). “Kill Decision”, p.78, Penguin
“Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.”

Source : Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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