"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."

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Source : James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.67, Open Road Media

James Beard

#Believe Quotes #Food Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses , the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy 's History , compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli 's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.”
“We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.”
“Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.”
“In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.”
“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.”
“One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.”

Source : S. N. Goenka (2012). “Discourse Summaries”, Pariyatti Publishing
“I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.”
“Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.11, Penguin

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