Jack Turner Quotations

William Fleming, I've said all along that I have no idea how they got beat last week. Because when I watch them on film, I'm in awe of them.

He's not in shape yet. Once he gets in shape, he'll get there.

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

We're a work in progress. We've got to stick together and be patient, and these kids will come along. Shoot, I'm not going to give up on them.

I have always felt that history, and especially cultural history, is best when it takes the broad view. In the case of spices, much of the fascination of the subject lies precisely in its intoxicating variety; I felt that to do it justice the writing had to be anything but narrowly focused, dry and dusty itself. I was determined to put some of that variety into my writing.

We went 5-0 out of district and it didn't help us any. Kevin is a heck of a competitor who wants to be out there, but if you're not close to 100 percent, I'm not going to clear it.

We've got two wonderful trainers. They're football people too. If they don't think a kid is really hurt, they're like, 'There's nothing wrong with you. Get out there.' I'm waiting until they say Kevin can come back.

Chemically, the qualities that make a spice a spice are its rare essential oils and oleoresins, highly volatile compounds that impart to the spices their flavor, aroma, and preservative properties,

PH is so fast. Those running backs, their feet never stop moving.

A Muslim friend of mine who has just read the book points out to me that Islam retains a similar duality over paradise. In paradise the righteous are rewarded with precisely what is forbidden on earth.