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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Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThe great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844