Clean plates don’t lie.

Dan Barber

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people.

I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

Sylvia Plath

I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that’s my job, you know, to perform for the people – and if they accept it that I am rewarded.

Michael Jackson

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Anatole France

Good fathers make good sons.

Unknown author

But is the unicorn a falsehood? It’s the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a virgin in the forest, so that the animal, catching her most chaste odor, will go and lay its head in her lap, offering itself as prey to the hunters’ snares. »

« So it is said, Adso. But many tend to believe that it’s a fable, an invention of the pagans. »

« What a disappointment, » I said. « I would have liked to encounter one, crossing a wood. Otherwise what’s the pleasure of crossing a wood? »

Umberto Eco

Your life is like a balloon…if you never let yourself go, you will never know how far you can rise.

Linda Poindexter

Persimmons

If it be not ripe, it will draw a man’s mouth awry, with much torment.

But when it is ripe, it is as delicious as an apricot.

Captain John Smith

Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.

Franz Kafka

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schulz

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

Rumi

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes
Come on, let us sway together under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

Edwin Morgan

Snow is falling, snow is falling on the ground,
In the forest, in the forest there’s no sound,
A shallow grave is where we lie,
The boys and men who died,
And snow is falling on the ground,
And we are calling to be found;

Chris De Burgh

Oh, the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Dean Martin

You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.

Paul Prudhomme

Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen

Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles.

George Mikes

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Sylvia Plath

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.

Said Aristippus, « If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils. » Said Diogenes, « Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king ».

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

Richie Norton

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.

Amit Ray

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

Sometimes even a thousand waves hitting the shore continuously one after the other also can’t erase few footprints on the seashore.

Akshay Vasu

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Peter Heller