"I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!"

-- Nobu Matsuhisa

#Mother Quotes #Knives Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Your body language shapes who you are”

Source : Amy Cuddy (2016). “Presença - Aprenda a impor-se aos grandes desafios”, p.312, Leya
“Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.”
“The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.”
“Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.”
“Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.”
“The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.”

Source : "Fact and Fiction in The Shadow Patrol". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 10, 2012.
“Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.”

Source : Christian Wiman (2013). “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer”, p.51, Macmillan
“I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.”

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