Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) Quotes
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
-
I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
-
The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
-
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
-
There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
-
I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
-
I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
-
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
-
Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
-
I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
-
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
-
I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
-
I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
-
Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
-
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
-
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
-
It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
-
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
-
I am a conservative and proud of it.
-
A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
-
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
-
So knuckle down. Get your book written. Get your life sorted.
-
Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.
