"The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it."

-- Rita Dove

#Book Quotes #Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“First,â€ he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, â€œchoose your tomato.â€ He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. â€œGood. Now pick up the knife.â€ â€œDoes the chef always stand this close?â€ I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. â€œWhen heâ€™s revealing culinary secrets, yes.”
“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.”
“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK
“Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.”
“People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.”
“I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.”
“Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.”
“Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.”

Source : Dorothy Gilman (2000). “Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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