When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Ben Bernanke

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never takes. You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Immanuel Kant

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

Michael Pollan

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

Jay-Z

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

John Ruskin

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

Love is almost never simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

Lily Tomlin

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

Ojalá te encuentre por aquí, en alguna calle del sueño. Es una gran alegría ésta de aprisionarte con mis párpados al dormir.

Jaime Sabines