"Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprÃ¨me de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croÃ»tons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know."

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Potatoes Quotes

“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.”
“Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.”

Source : "Jose Garces Celebrates Cinco de Mayo" by Sarah Rosenbergtom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. May 5, 2010.
“Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.”
“The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.”

Source : Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.124, Hachette UK
“Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
“We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter or the way we look in our Facebook photos. As a result, we neglect activities that are truly essential, like spending time with our loved ones, or nurturing our spirit, or taking care of our health.”
“Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.”
“Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.”

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