"And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?"

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Source : Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

Bill Bryson

#Food Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.”
“When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.”
“I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.”

Source : Barbara Cartland (1943). “The Isthmus Years”
“I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.”
“But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's stuck.”
“I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.”
“I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it.”
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

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