No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Michael Symon

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Mark Twain

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

Larry David

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

Gerald McRaney

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

A. N. Wilson

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Lisa See

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

James Baldwin

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

Carl Sagan, The DemonHaunted Wor

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Ed Case

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis