Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003
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Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943