Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980
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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, 2003In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822