Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Damian Fraser

This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest rates high and make sure the budget is austere for the next year. High rates are bad news for equity holders.

Joost Hiltermann

The situation in Iraq looks austere and the implementation of a new all inclusive government is very important for better security.

Michele Quinn

This is definitely an austere show. The weight and scale come across, which are the crux of his work.

E. T. Bell

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

David Hume

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Athenaeus

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Alain Ducasse

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Alain de Botton

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Judy McNamara

Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.

Daniel Boulud

Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Larry Fitzgerald

I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'd rather just be the girl who likes to eat a lot of food.

Erin McKean

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Connie Willis

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

Daniel Boulud

The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.

Mignon McLaughlin

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

Julie Delpy

I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

Alfred Adler

Every neurotic is partly in the right.

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Kathleen Glynn

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Juvenal

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Grady Fuson

Show me that somebody that says winning is not a part of development, I'll show you a loser.

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Mack Brown

Pete says if you're talking about the streak and thinking about the streak, it's going to come to an end.

Damon Hewitt

If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Mardi Gras

If we can do this, it says we're back.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

Bear Grylls

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Dido Armstrong

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

Al Yankovic

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

Alain de Botton

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Lisa McGiffert

When you read stuff like this, you wonder who you can trust.

Alexandre Aja

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

Kevin Mitnick

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.