Nicholson Baker Quotes
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.Nicholson Baker
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There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky -
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso -
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
Iris Chang -
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
Adam Braun -
We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
I. M. Pei
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden -
You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
Haley Bennett -
What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
Laura Linney -
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael -
It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
Irrfan Khan
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
Vanessa Carlton -
Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T. S. Eliot -
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
Camille Paglia -
As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….'
Utah Phillips -
They can say anything they want to say Try to bring me down But I won't face the ground
Mariah Carey
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There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.
David Hallberg -
We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
Thich Nhat Hanh -
People hate to and will not read instructions.
Nolan Bushnell -
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Anton Seidl -
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
Nicholson Baker