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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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823I never know quite when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, Dammit, Thurber, stop writing. She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. Or my daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, Is he sick? No, my wife says, he’s writing something.
—James Thurber, 1955Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbIt’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000