"This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail."

-- Thor Heyerdahl

#Other Cultures Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.”
“I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
“I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.”
“Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.”
“I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.”
“Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.”
“A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . . It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.”
“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of itâ€¦ If youâ€™re convinced that cooking is drudgery, youâ€™re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

Source : James Beard, Amy Pastan, Peter Pastan (1986). “James Beard's theory & practice of good cooking in large print”, G K Hall & Co

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