Craig Claiborne Quotes
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
Craig Claiborne
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
Yakov Smirnoff
When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
Rachel Weisz
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
C. Wright Mills
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger
As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
Barry Jenkins
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart
The blood pigment haemoglobin is a compound which can be split by diverse methods into its constituents, pigment and protein.
Hans Fischer
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
Aaron Eckhart
When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
Frances Beinecke
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
Mac Davis
Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
Gareth Bale
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
William Shakespeare
Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
Pythagoras
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
Sally Kellerman
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
Marilyn vos Savant
I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good." But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.
Gabrielle Union
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
Craig Claiborne
