Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
-
If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
-
As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
-
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
-
I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
-
We will not lose this election for lack of money.
-
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
-
I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
-
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
-
People never believe you.
-
At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
-
When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
-
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
-
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
-
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
-
The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
-
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
-
It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
-
I've never been a morning person, ever. I hate the morning. I have more energy at night.
-
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
-
There are people who think negatively, and there have been people who react negatively towards BTS music.
-
I think we have not done a good job of explaining to people in rural America what is actually happening, number one. And, number two, we're not expressing appreciation and acknowledging the contribution that rural America makes. Where does your food come from? Where does the water come from? Where does the energy feedstock come from? It all comes from rural areas. Where does your military come from? Nearly 35 to 40 percent of the military is from 15 percent of America's population living in rural America. It makes a tremendous contribution to this country. It just isn't recognized.
-
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
