I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

To the discontented man no chair is easy

Benjamin Franklin

I've always been around dudes and sports.

Lisa Guerrero

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Sir Richard Steele

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

William Blake

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Abdul Kalam

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Kenneth Anger

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Harold Rosenberg

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

Buffalo Bill

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

Tony Kushner

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Thomas Hardy

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Danielle Steel