"It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality."

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Source : Nigel Slater (2013). “The Kitchen Diaries”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

Nigel Slater

#Quality Quotes #Intrigue Quotes

“Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.”
“Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin”
“I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.”
“I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.”
“I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.”
“Music is a safe kind of high.”
“Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press
“Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.”

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