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The Literature Page A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La RochefoucauldBefore we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. Francois de La RochefoucauldFew things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. Francois De La RochefoucauldGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. Francois de La RochefoucauldHypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. Francois de La RochefoucauldIf we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La RochefoucauldJealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. Francois de La RochefoucauldMany people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. Francois de La RochefoucauldNo persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. Francois De La RochefoucauldNothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation. Francois De La RochefoucauldOne cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. Francois de La RochefoucauldOur repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. Francois de La RochefoucauldPreserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe passions are the only orators that always persuade. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe passions often engender their contraries. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe pleasure of love is in loving. Francois de La RochefoucauldTo establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established. Francois de La RochefoucauldTo listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. Francois de La RochefoucauldWe always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Francois de La RochefoucauldWe confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. Francois de La RochefoucauldBrowse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:
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The Literature Page A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La RochefoucauldBefore we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. Francois de La RochefoucauldFew things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. Francois De La RochefoucauldGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. Francois de La RochefoucauldHypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. Francois de La RochefoucauldIf we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La RochefoucauldJealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. Francois de La RochefoucauldMany people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. Francois de La RochefoucauldNo persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. Francois De La RochefoucauldNothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation. Francois De La RochefoucauldOne cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. Francois de La RochefoucauldOur repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. Francois de La RochefoucauldPreserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe passions are the only orators that always persuade. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe passions often engender their contraries. Francois de La RochefoucauldThe pleasure of love is in loving. Francois de La RochefoucauldTo establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established. Francois de La RochefoucauldTo listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. Francois de La RochefoucauldWe always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Francois de La RochefoucauldWe confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. Francois de La RochefoucauldBrowse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:
The Eat Sheet: Where to Go Gourmet Vegetarian in New York City
So where do Rachel Weisz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Gisele Bundchen go for haute cuisine vegetarian? Here are the five top spots in Manhattan to eat green right nowIt's easy being green in NYC. While the city may be famed for its hot dog stands and pizza-making prowess, several top chefs are helping the Big Apple live up to its earth and body-friendly nickname with vegetable-based menus all the rage in the city. New York's chefs are letting their leafy friends steal the spotlight from their meatier and fishier costars and proving they are more than just supporting roles as side dishes and salads. Whether you’re looking for a light summer meal under the scorching sun or trying to stay fit before the early fall film festival season gets underway, here are THR's top picks for a veg-central meal in Manhattan.
Daniel Boulud
At, Daniel, his eponymous spot on the Upper East Side, French chef Daniel Boulud offers a full vegetarian menu complete with several choices for every course. Boulud's effervescent personality shines through in his cooking and Daniel's spacious dining room and attentive though not obsequious wait staff make for a special evening whether for a long business lunch or a celebratory dinner. Start with a tasting of young carrots or a celery gazpacho, follow with a fennel royale with black mission figs or a cauliflower mousseline before ending on a sweet note. Howard Stern was a recent guest. Boulud has also just opened the new Mediterannean-themed Boulud Sud just across from Lincoln Center. The "Le Jardin" portion of the menu is entirely devoted to vegetable dishes including a Salade Tropezienne with artichokes, celery and fennel or a Ratatouille with soft egg. The restaurant just opened in May, but already boasts a celeb following including Bette Midler, Gene Wilder, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Weisz, Steven Sondheim and Jeremy Irons. Boulud Sud will serve lunch "à la mode" starting just in time for NYC’s September fashion week. (Daniel: 60 East 65th Street; Boulud Sur: 20 West 64th Street)
Pure Food & Wine
Sarma Melngailis pioneered New Yorkers into the raw food movement before it was trendy and now has a vast local, international and celeb following that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Clinton, Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady. "We cater quite a bit to the entertainment biz, a lot of musicians and actors,” Melngailis says of the restaurant and One Lucky Duck take-out service that boasts several industry regulars, adding: "I think people who have to perform in their careers are particularly aware of how food, diet and lifestyle can affect energy levels." The sleek décor inside and scenic outdoor garden provide "an intimate setting for people who don’t want to dine under a spotlight," says Melngailis. Don't miss Pure's oven-free yet flavor-filled classic raw lasagna and new seasonal, creative creations like fresh figs with black summer truffles or a blueberry lavendar tart and beat the sweltering summer heat with a bowl of their famous cashew-based ice cream. (54 Irving Place)
Adour by Alain Ducasse at the St Regis New York
Vegetables have always starred in Alain Ducasse's cuisine and the celebrity French chef has brought his seasonal savoir-faire to NY with a special vegetarian tasting menu at the Adour restaurant at the St Regis. Based on his mantra of "60% ingredients and 40% technique" Ducasse uses fresh, local and seasonal fare for the 5-course culinary tour de vegetables that includes a chilled local sweet corn veloute, white vegetable carpaccio, Yukon gold potato gnocchi, the chef's famous "cookpot" filled with veggies from NY state finished off with a mango, coconut and passion fruit vacherin. Ducasse recently treated Prince Albert of Monaco and his royal and celebrity wedding guests to a veg-centric menu. If you weren’t invited to the festivities, this is the next best thing. (2 East 55th Street)
Blue Hill NYC
If you can’t find the time to schedule a trip out to the farm, not to worry, Dan Barber is bringing farm to table dining to Manhattan at Blue Hill's Washington Place location. And if eating farm animals isn't your thing, not to fear, Barber has handpicked a wide array of garden gems to keep your meat-free palate busy. The fresh menu changes daily based on Mother Earth's whims and recent options include a grilled sugar baby watermelon with goat cheese, heirloom tomato salad or tomato and melon gazpacho to start followed by an emmer and quinoa primavera as a main with a choice of side superstars like marinated beets or cherry tomatoes, summer beans or roasted peanut potatoes. Book early at the always-packed location whose intimate setting provides a welcome refuge for celebs including President and Michelle Obama who chose Blue Hill for a date night. (75 Washington Place)
Eleven Madison Park
You don’t have to be a celebrity anymore to design your dream dinner. At Eleven Madison Park (pictured below), exec chef Daniel Humm lets diners choose their favorite ingredients and signal their least favorites, then creates dishes designed exclusively for them. Humm is happy to oblige even the most picky of palates and makes sure that perfect produce makes its way to every plate. "Vegetables showcase seasons in a way that no other food can. For me, cooking with vegetables has always been about highlighting every aspect of their flavor and texture and about being very creative," Humm says. The chef enjoys cooking several versions of the same vegetable – he'll roast, crisp, puree and fry that eggplant you requested – and his carrot-based dish (yes, carrots indeed) was a menu sensation for months. "For me as a chef, I'm used to working with many luxury ingredients, but I've realized that there is also a luxury that comes with finding the right carrot, or the right celery, or the right peas," Humm explains, adding: "And building dishes around those ingredients can be incredibly beautiful and rewarding." (11 Madison Avenue) -- Photo by Francesco Tonelli
Robert Burton
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton
A quiet mind cureth all.
Robert Burton
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Robert Burton
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Robert Burton
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Robert Burton
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Robert Burton
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 21 of 21 total I?m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I?m going to succeed as myself. Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999When people think the world of you, be careful with them. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06 It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 04-12-2006Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho\'s weblog, 03-23-06I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04 Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-18-04 Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04 Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04 Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04 If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04 Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04 Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03 People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 21 of 21 total I?m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I?m going to succeed as myself. Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999When people think the world of you, be careful with them. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06 It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 04-12-2006Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 08-24-04I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho\'s weblog, 03-23-06I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04 Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-18-04 Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04 Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04 Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04 If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04 Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04 Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03 People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
Stendhal
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Stendhal
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Stendhal
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Stendhal
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Stendhal
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
Stendhal
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Stendhal
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James ThurberHe knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. James ThurberHe who hesitates is sometimes saved. James ThurberHuman Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. James ThurberI used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James ThurberIt had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. James ThurberIt is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James ThurberThe only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. James Thurber The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where. James Thurber The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James ThurberThere are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? James ThurberI do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. James Thurber, "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James ThurberHe knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. James ThurberHe who hesitates is sometimes saved. James ThurberHuman Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. James ThurberI used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James ThurberIt had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. James ThurberIt is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James ThurberThe only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. James Thurber The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where. James Thurber The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James ThurberThere are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? James ThurberI do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. James Thurber, "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Plutarch
Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. PlutarchKnow how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. PlutarchRest is the sweet sauce of labor. PlutarchSo very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history. PlutarchThe whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. Plutarch To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. PlutarchIt is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch, 'Morals,' 100 A.D.Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch, Lives An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. Plutarch, Morals For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. Plutarch, MoralsThe very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. Plutarch, Morals When the candles are out all women are fair. Plutarch, Morals
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Frances Moore Lappe
Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004 I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total Necessity has no law. William Langland There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. William LanglandWho will bell the cat? William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
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Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total Browse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:The Eat Sheet: Pop-Up Chef Sensation Ludo Lefebvre's Best Eats in America
The chef and his business partner/wife Krissy criss-crossed the country for their Sundance Channel show "Ludo Bites America" — here are four of their best finds
Ludo Lefebvre, nationally known for his always sold-out pop-up restaurant concept Ludo Bites, co-stars with business partner/wife Krissy in the Sundance Channel show, Ludo Bites America. Every episode, the show, which has its finale this Sunday, August 28 at 9 pm, finds the couple touring the country and setting up shop at a local eatery in a different city. In between shooting, Ludo, a classically-trained 5-star chef who Time magazine has called "Chef of The Future", and Krissy got out to sample some of the best cuisine that the likes of Omaha, Mobile and Santa Fe have to offer.
Here are four of their must-visit places for regional food in the U.S.
Steaks in Omaha
Ludo: "We had amazing steak at Spencer's Steakhouse. You walk in to the restaurant and the service is immediately attentive. Our server was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable about locally sourced beef, the menu and the wine. Some might call it information overload, but we loved and it was definitely not just for our table, we listened to his passion when he was at the table next to us. We ate ourselves full. Started the meal with lobster bisque, oysters on the half shell, crab cakes and Caesar salad. Krissy had the 20oz bone-in ribeye and I went with the Omaha Wagyu special for the night. We also had spicy sweet potato fries and mac & cheese. We finished off with a cheesecake and some ice cream. Classic steakhouse through and through, but isn't that what you want when you go for steak in Omaha?" 102 South 10th Street, Omaha
New Mexican Cuisine in Santa Fe
Krissy: "We snuck out to grab a little Santa Fe lunch during filming. We landed at what has to be the quintessential Santa Fe spot, Cafe Pasqual's. From the minute you walk in the door, you can tell this is true New Mexico cuisine. The restaurant is so bright and colorful with flags and chile bunches hanging from the ceiling and Mexican folk art covering the walls. There is always a line out the door and we waited about 20 minutes for our table, but this gave us a great opportunity to go shopping at Sun Country Traders and pick up some New Mexico art. Now to the food. We had to have the much talked about 'hash' and it did not disappoint, the potatoes and corned beef were both so moist. We added to that Chile Relleno con Huevos Y Frijoles Negros Y Salsa and Carne Asada. Combine that with the chips and salsa we just could not quit eating (the salsa in New Mexico is truly the best) and the glass of rose wine and we definitely dragging when we went back to work, but so worth every minute and every morsel. Ludo even bought the Cafe Pasqual cookbook before leaving, now that is always a sign of a good meal." 121 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe
Barbecue in Chapel Hill
Ludo: "We ate a lot of bbq in the Raleigh area. Neither of us had North Carolina style bbq before so this was quite the new discovery. Starting with a 2am visit to Allen and Son's BBQ, which is actually in Chapel Hill. As a regular diner, you would not be venturing into the woods at 2am, but it gave us such a great understanding of the work, love and passion that goes in to this unfortunate dying art form. The bbq served at lunch at Allen and Son's has been cooked for about 10 hours and comes straight from the wood smoking pits to your plate everyday. It is so juicy, smoky and tender. Keith Allen uses mostly pork shoulder and removes the skin before hand chopping the meat. You get a nice variety of pieces in the chop, mostly small tasty morsels, but you will always find a few larger pieces in the chop. Get the hushpuppies too. Also everyday Keith makes a few desserts from scratch, we had the apple crumble, so delicious. The dining room itself looks like it is straight out of a movie set, checkered table clothes on picnic tables. It is a simple and homey as it gets." 919-942-7576, 6203 Millhouse Road, Chapel Hill
Southern food in Mobile
Krissy: "We did have amazing fried chicken at a local place called Hart's in Mobile. It is a complete fast food joint, but the fried chicken was spicy, crispy and delicious. Ludo and I kept trying to look in the kitchen to see what kind of fryers they used without being too obvious, but just the sight of the two of us in the restaurant made everything obvious. If you are a fried chicken lover, it is a must stop." 251-473-3139, 2951 Spring Hill Avenue, Mobile
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The Literature Page A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin DisraeliAs a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin DisraeliBore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. Benjamin Disraeli Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Benjamin Disraeli Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. Benjamin Disraeli Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. Benjamin DisraeliI repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. Benjamin DisraeliIgnorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable. Benjamin DisraeliIndividuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Benjamin DisraeliIt is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. Benjamin DisraeliJustice is truth in action. Benjamin DisraeliMy idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Benjamin DisraeliNext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin DisraeliNo government can be long secure without formidable opposition. Benjamin DisraeliNurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. Benjamin DisraeliThe greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin DisraeliThe hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. Benjamin DisraeliThe magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Benjamin DisraeliThe more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin DisraeliThe most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. Benjamin DisraeliThe secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin DisraeliThe wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli Browse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:
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Heraclitus
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A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
Big results require big ambitions.
Heraclitus
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus
Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus
Character is destiny.
Heraclitus
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Heraclitus
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
Heraclitus
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
Heraclitus
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Heraclitus
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Heraclitus
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Born: 544 BC
Died: 483 BC
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Samuel Johnson
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson
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Type: Author
Nationality: English
Born: September 18, 1709
Died: December 13, 1784
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Jack Benny
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny
Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Jack Benny
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
Jack Benny
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny
It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny
Modesty is my best quality.
Jack Benny
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
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Born: February 14, 1894
Died: December 26, 1974
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Susan B. Anthony
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. Anthony
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. Anthony
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Susan B. Anthony
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Susan B. Anthony
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. Anthony
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Born: February 15, 1820
Died: March 13, 1906
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Lillian Hellman
Showing quotations 1 to 6 of 6 total It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. Lillian HellmanNobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. Lillian Hellman The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Lillian HellmanNothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. Lillian Hellman, letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952 Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, 1939
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Angel Food Awards Honor 'Glee' Producer
The event, held by organization Project Angel Food, honored author Lisa Lillien and 'Glee’s' Dante Di Loreto for their commitment to the food delivery program for the homeless.Project Angel Food, the food delivery program for the ill and homebound, honored Hungry Girl author Lisa Lillien and Glee producer Dante Di Loreto for their commitment to the organization on Aug. 20. The two-decade-old charity enlists volunteers and staff to cook meals for people with life-threatening illnesses, which are delivered to more than 13,000 people in Los Angeles.
The awards — held at Project Angel Food headquarters in Hollywood — featured performances from finalists on hit Oxygen show, The Glee Project, and a home grown dinner for 400 active volunteers and L.A. tastemakers. Previous recipients include Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Taylor and Jessica Lange (who was a presenter at this year’s show).
While Maura Tierney kicked evening off with a 20k phone donation towards the purchase of a van for the organization, the celebration continued as The Office's Leslie David Barker enjoyed the silent auction, and Nickelodeon's latest stars Ariana Grande and Jeanette McCurdy drank virgin "glee-tini's. The organization's CEO, Margaret Steele, summed up the event as "filled with love."
With ink not even dry on a contract with Lifetime for her new show, The Client List, Jennifer Love Hewitt was thrilled to talk about her new gig--she plays a housewife who turns to prostitution in order to keep her home out of foreclosure. "I’m so excited to be at a place [that's] ready to do unapologetic television. This will be a show that will allow them to be that, especially with the subject matter. And, I think we’ll get some guys to come over and watch because there will be lingerie in every episode, it should be good."
Honoree Di Loreto talked up his next project, the FX TV series American Horror Story, starring Lange, but wouldn’t divulge details. "You may have to watch it with a pause button because you may have to stop and catch your breath," he said. "We get to do some nasty things on cable! We get to show people’s butts and people can talk the way they really talk.”
Industry board members of the organization include Darren Star, Dreamworks’ Chip Sullivan, entertainment business manager John McIlwee, Center Theater Group managing editor Edward Rada, and NCIS’ Pauley Perrette.
William S. Burroughs
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs
A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
William S. Burroughs
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. Burroughs
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
William S. Burroughs
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
William S. Burroughs
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs
Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs
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Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else. Hob Broun
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Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Browse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:Paul McCartney Finally Works With Decca to Release Ballet
Nearly 50 years after famously rejecting the Beatles, “Ocean’s Kingdom” will debut Sept. 22 in New York City.Nearly 50 years after Decca famously rejected the Beatles and reportedly said that the group had "no future in showbusiness," the label is working with Paul McCartney to release his upcoming ballet, Ocean's Kingdom, Reuters reports.
The show will debut on Sept. 22 at the New York City Ballet and will have four additional performances in September and five in January. The recording will be released in Britain by Decca on Oct. 3.
McCartney's four-movement Ocean's Kingdom is conducted by John Wilson and perfomed by the London Classical Orchestra. The hour and a half performance tells the tale of an underwater love story, where the deep-sea world is threatened by humans.
McCartney said in a statement that he was "trying to write something that expressed an emotion -- so you have fear, love, anger, sadness to play with, and I found that exciting and challenging."
Michel de Montaigne
Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. Michel de MontaigneDon't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. Michel de MontaigneEach man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in. Michel de MontaigneEven on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. Michel de MontaigneFashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Michel de MontaigneHe who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. Michel de MontaigneHe who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. Michel de Montaigne I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. Michel de MontaigneI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. Michel de MontaigneNot being able to govern events, I govern myself. Michel de MontaigneNothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. Michel de MontaigneThe art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. Michel de Montaigne The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de MontaigneThe most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. Michel de Montaigne Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. Michel de Montaigne, 'De l'experience,' 1580-88I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. Michel de Montaigne, 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Power Shopping: The 25 Most Expensive Fashion Stores in the Country
L.A.'s Maxfield, Santa Monica's Savannah, and Beverly Hills' Dolce & Gabbana make the sticker shock list. In a new survey, Oscar de la Renta’s New York City boutique has been named the priciest store in America. According to Bundle.com, which ran the numbers, “De la Renta’s eponymous store on New York City’s Madison Avenue had well-to-do shoppers spending $3,217 on average during each shopping trip.” The designer’s cocktail dresses can cost as much as $10,690.
Only four L.A.-area stores made the list. The trendy Maxfield in West Hollywood (8825 Melrose Avenue) is ranked No. 5. Average spent per shopping trip: 2,258. Celebrities who have been spotted there recently include Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, Adam Lambert and David and Victoria Beckham.
Also on the list: Santa Monica’s Savannah (706 Montana Avenue) at No. 9, $1,970 an average visit, and, in Beverly Hills, 16th-ranked Dolce & Gabbana (312 N. Rodeo Dr.,), $1,595, and 23rd-ranked Escada (9502 Wilshire Boulevard), $1,466.
According to the website, it compiled the list based on proprietary data provided by Citi, looking at millions of transactions between April 2010 and May 2011.
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Wilson Mizner
Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. Wilson MiznerA good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down. Wilson MiznerGod help those who do not help themselves. Wilson MiznerI respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson MiznerThose who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. Wilson Mizner
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
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Showing quotations 1 to of total A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005All a good letter has to do is make you feel special. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Eye contact is the best accessory. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005I'm terribly sorry, but nature is not always family friendly. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005If you stand still outside you can hear it... Winter's footsteps, the sound of falling leaves Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Is the question 'Why is it bad to do bad things?' the same as asking permission? Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It is hard work, but there is happiness in it. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It may stink like me, but that's what makes it so collectible! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Life is shaped by the people you meet every day. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Living in the ocean means never having to salt your food. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Showing quotations 1 to of total A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005All a good letter has to do is make you feel special. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Eye contact is the best accessory. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005I'm terribly sorry, but nature is not always family friendly. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005If you stand still outside you can hear it... Winter's footsteps, the sound of falling leaves Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Is the question 'Why is it bad to do bad things?' the same as asking permission? Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It is hard work, but there is happiness in it. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It may stink like me, but that's what makes it so collectible! Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005 It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Life is shaped by the people you meet every day. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Living in the ocean means never having to salt your food. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Showing quotations 1 to of total Browse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:Laurence Sterne
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
Laurence Sterne
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Laurence Sterne
An English man does not travel to see English men.
Laurence Sterne
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Laurence Sterne
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Laurence Sterne
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Laurence Sterne
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
Laurence Sterne
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
Laurence Sterne
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Laurence Sterne
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Laurence Sterne
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence Sterne
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Laurence Sterne
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Laurence Sterne
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Nationality: Irish
Born: November 24, 1713
Died: March 18, 1768
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Shakti Gawain
Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. Shakti GawainEvery time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. Shakti Gawain I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience. Shakti Gawain Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. Shakti Gawain The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. Shakti Gawain We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. Shakti GawainWhat I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly. Shakti Gawain When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. Shakti Gawain
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Steven Wright
Showing quotations 1 to 17 of 17 total Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. Steven Wright Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Steven WrightI bought some batteries, but they weren't included. Steven WrightI have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. Steven WrightI used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. Steven WrightI was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. Steven WrightIf you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? Steven WrightIt doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. Steven WrightIt's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. Steven WrightLast night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. Steven WrightLast night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?' Steven WrightLast year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. Steven WrightMy theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. Steven WrightThere's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven WrightWhat's another word for Thesaurus? Steven WrightWhen I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' Steven Wright You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Steven Wright
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Dick Ebersol Lists $13 Mil Telluride Home (Exclusive)
The former NBC Sports chief and wife Susan St. James purchased the ski resort getaway for $10.4 mil in 2004.THR has learned that Dick Ebersol, who resigned from NBC in May, and his wife, Susan St. James, have put their Telluride house on the market for $13 million.
Located the tony enclave of Mountain Village, the 7-bedroom, log-and-stone house sits among pines and aspens on 1.7 acres with mountain-peak views. According to the listing, doors, flooring and cabinets are constructed of rustic reclaimed wood and "chandeliers and fireplaces handcrafted by some of the West's finest artisans."
According to San Miguel County assessor records, the Ebersols purchased the 12,962-square-foot residence in 2004 for $10.4 million.
Built in 2001, the house also includes 7 full baths and a home theater.
The sale comes more than six years after they suffered the death of their 14-year-old son, Teddy. The teen, along with his older brother and father, were among the passengers in a private plane that crashed at the Montrose Regional Airport in southwest Colorado in 2004.
In July, Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld also listed their Telluride residence, an 11-bedroom, multi-building compound on 26-acres for $18.25 million.
The house's listing agent, TD Smith, would not comment on the identity of the owners.
Karl Von Clausewitz
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Karl Von Clausewitz
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Karl Von Clausewitz
I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
Karl Von Clausewitz
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Karl Von Clausewitz
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Karl Von Clausewitz
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Karl Von Clausewitz
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
Karl Von Clausewitz
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Karl Von Clausewitz
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Karl Von Clausewitz
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Karl Von Clausewitz
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Karl Von Clausewitz
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Born: June 1, 1780
Died: November 16, 1831
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Saul Bellow
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow
Conquered people tend to be witty.
Saul Bellow
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Saul Bellow
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
Saul Bellow
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow
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Type: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: June 10, 1914
Died: April 5, 2005
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Steve Jobs
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The Literature Page A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. Steve JobsAlmost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve JobsBe a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve JobsDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. Steve JobsI think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better. Steve JobsIn most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. Steve Jobs Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve JobsSo we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.' Steve JobsSometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve JobsThe people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. Steve JobsYou can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. Steve JobsYour time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve JobsI'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building. Steve Jobs, Apple Confidential 2.0I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do. Steve Jobs, Business WeekQuality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. Steve Jobs, Business WeekI've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25 1998 Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. Steve Jobs, Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998Insanely Great! Steve Jobs, His description for the Macintosh ComputerI'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. Steve Jobs, Interview, 1995It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. Steve Jobs, Odyssey: Pepsi to AppleIt's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Steve Jobs, Playboy, February 1985I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. Steve Jobs, Playboy, September 1987Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 Browse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:
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The Literature Page A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. Steve JobsAlmost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve JobsBe a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve JobsDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. Steve JobsI think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better. Steve JobsIn most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. Steve Jobs Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve JobsSo we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.' Steve JobsSometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve JobsThe people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. Steve JobsYou can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. Steve JobsYour time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve JobsI'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building. Steve Jobs, Apple Confidential 2.0I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do. Steve Jobs, Business WeekQuality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. Steve Jobs, Business WeekI've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25 1998 Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. Steve Jobs, Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998Insanely Great! Steve Jobs, His description for the Macintosh ComputerI'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. Steve Jobs, Interview, 1995It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. Steve Jobs, Odyssey: Pepsi to AppleIt's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Steve Jobs, Playboy, February 1985I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. Steve Jobs, Playboy, September 1987Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path. Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 Browse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark TwainAlways acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark TwainAn Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. Mark Twain Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark TwainBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark TwainCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark TwainDon't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark TwainEducation: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark TwainFacts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Mark TwainFiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Mark Twain Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. Mark Twain Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Mark TwainI didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. Mark TwainI don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark TwainI have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. Mark TwainI have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark TwainI have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Mark TwainBrowse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark TwainAlways acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark TwainAn Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. Mark Twain Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark TwainBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark TwainCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark TwainDon't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark TwainEducation: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark TwainFacts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Mark TwainFiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Mark Twain Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. Mark Twain Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Mark TwainI didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. Mark TwainI don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark TwainI have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. Mark TwainI have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark TwainI have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Mark TwainBrowse our complete list of 3156 authors by last name:
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