Alton Brown Quotes

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Mother
  • Strong

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Die

• Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Different
  • Society

• I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Men
  • Power
  • Simple

• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Game
  • Law
  • Winning

• I have no family to take care of.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Family
  • Care
  • Take Care

• I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Worry

• I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • See

• Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Achieve
  • Boring
  • Fitness

• I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Christmas

• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Good
  • Real
  • Heroes

• The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Important
  • Survival

• Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Family
  • Mother

• 20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Joy

• USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Love
  • Really
  • Cinema

• The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • World
  • Brain
  • Creating

• Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Good
  • Song

• Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

  

  Alton Brown