"Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values."

“I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.”

Source : "Etta James' New Lease Of Life", www.sfgate.com. August 22, 2003.

“It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.”

“I've missed you, Sebastian." "Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?" "Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression. "I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that." "Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly. He gave a husky laugh. "True.”

“It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.”

Source : "Games for Actors and non-Actors". Book by Augusto Boal, p. xxvi, 1992.

“It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.”

“Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.”

“The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

“When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.”