"It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over."

-- Laurie Colwin

#Wise Quotes #Food Quotes #Two Quotes

“Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.”

Source : Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.32, Shambhala Publications
“In love, be willing to fight for them, but never compete.”
“Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.”
“There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.”
“Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day...”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin
“A lot of people try to use sarcasm to flirt, and it tends not to read well. Most people who are successful at flirting do so via instant message instead of email. The best way to flirt is to care deeply about whatever your date is saying and to focus all of your attention on him or her. Ask thoughtful questions. Take a keen interest in the conversation. Be enthusiastic.”
“I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.”

Source : Laurence Yep (2000). “Dragonwings: and related readings”
“I like working in series, so instead of just doing one separate body of work, what if I come up with a different rhythm, instead of every week, what if I make it every year? And so I'm still setting up a series, a repetition, but it's a completely different work flow.”

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