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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8828dcf | A: I like your apartment. B: It's nice, but it's only big enough for one person - or two people who are very close. A: You know two people who are very close? | Andy Warhol | ||
| 5d2bf44 | Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick. He would like to have been a charming, well-born debutante from Boston. He would like to have been anybody except Andy Warhol. | Jean Stein | ||
| 9297654 | WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER THE ORGY? | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| afc170d | The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| 821b300 | Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| a1b155e | DESPERATELY SEEKING EPIC You're my father. I don't know much about you. I know your name is Paul James, you're a thrill seeker, and once upon a time you did stunts and people called you 'Epic.' I've been told you don't know about me. That it's complicated. But for me it's simple. Here's the thing: I'm twelve years old . . . and I'm dying. And as much as this could crush my mother, I have to meet you before I go. In time, I'm sure she'll und.. | B.N. Toler | ||
| 96467b4 | I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by | discovery science discovery-of-dna nobel-laureate watson-and-crick dna francis-crick james-watson genetics | Linus Pauling | |
| 73d816e | Human beings, in their settled condition, are animated by oikophilia: the love of the oikos, which means not only the home but the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting contours and an enduring smile. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 44b4096 | People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 28f8abf | wanting it for its beauty is not wanting to inspect it: it is wanting to contemplate it--and that is something more than a search for information or an expression of appetite. Here is a want without a goal: a desire that cannot be fulfilled since there is nothing that would count as its fulfilment. | Roger Scruton | ||
| f0faa9b | Realism...is a kind of disappointed tribute to the ideal. | Roger Scruton | ||
| a60fac9 | The important person in a free economy is not the manager but the entrepreneur - the one who takes risks and meets the cost of them. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 5a79a6d | John O'Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 7be5caf | Had Heidegger attached his great ego to the cause of international socialism, he would have enjoyed the whitewash granted to Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Hobsbawm and the other apologists for the Gulag.1 But the cause of national socialism could enjoy no such convenient excuse, and the sin was compounded, in Heidegger's case, by the fact that it was precisely the national, rather than the socialist aspect of the creed that had attracted him. | national-socialism marxism | Roger Scruton | |
| 0174030 | There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science. There are all sorts of questions like that that which at the periphery of scientic inquiry but which wiggle in the mind like worms: the question "what am I, what is this word 'I'"? Does it refer to anything? If you try to capture the "I", you don't captu.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| ca18ded | Left-wing politics has discarded the revolutionary paradigm advanced by the New Left, in favour of bureaucratic routines and the institutionalization of the welfare culture. The two goals of liberation and social justice remain in place: but they are promoted by legislation, committees and government commissions empowered to root out the sources of discrimination. Liberation and social justice have been bureaucratized. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 25c4850 | Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 0cc4116 | To have a child is to give fate a hostage. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 5d8a6e6 | Portugal was the beginning, where I began to notice the things that were missing from the average American dining experience. The large groups of people who ate together. The family element. The seemingly casual cruelty that comes with living close to your food. The fierce resistance to change - if change comes at the expense of traditionally valued dishes. I'd see this again and again, in other countries far from Portugal. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| cc8aaef | Look at your waiter's face. He knows. It's another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh. | food-service waiter food-writing restaurant food | Anthony Bourdain | |
| eeabe24 | You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| e3586ab | Skills can be taught. Character you either have or don't have. Bigfoot understood that there are two types of people in the world: those who do what they say they're going to do -- and everyone else. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 5436822 | I'll be right here. Until they drag me off the line. I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't miss it for the world. | food-writing restaurant cooking chef kitchen food | Anthony Bourdain | |
| a88c5ef | I learned to recognize failure. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 7fcc6e2 | This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8de1dda | Lying in bed and smoking my sixth or seventh cigarette of the morning, I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to do today. Oh yeah, I gotta write this thing. But that's not work, really, is it? It feels somehow shifty and . . . dishonest, making a buck writing. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 9e9df77 | Line cooks are the heroes. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ae0b22b | I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| a5f4108 | He could tell when the bullying, the relentless sarcasm, the constant, all-encompassing vigilance had become too exhausting. When one of his people was fed up with staying awake at night anticipating his likes and dislikes, was sick of charting his mood swings, was tired of feeling demeaned and beaten down after being asked, for instance, to clean out the grease trap, was ready to burst into tears and quit, then suddenly Bigfoot would appea.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 82de7ba | A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent -- the victim's head or your pan -- then throw that pan right in the trash. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| cb58a1f | One in eight Cambodians - as many as 2 million people - were killed during the Khmer Rouge's campaign to eradicate their country's history. One out of every 250 Cambodians is missing a limb, crippled by one of the thousands and thousands of land mines still waiting to be stepped on in the country's roads, fields, forests, and irrigation ditches. Destabilized, bombed, invaded, forced into slave labor, murdered by the thousands, the Cambodian.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8c8157c | Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day. | craftsmanship | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 88a22ca | with every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 444c637 | When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out! | prayer sonlight presence | Peter Kreeft | |
| 2744014 | Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 0afc43b | We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable. | prayer joy god love | Peter Kreeft | |
| a9fbe21 | There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy. | perseverance prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| c7d6a46 | Other possible means were not lacking on God's part." One drop of blood--from Christ's circumcision at the age of eight days--would have been sufficient to purchase all mankind's salvation. Why then did He give us twelve quarts instead of one drop? The simple and stunning answer, from Monica Miller's book on the movie "The Passion of the Christ", is: Because He had twelve quarts to give. The strategy of war and of games is to win with the m.. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f3252d6 | Haven't you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that the very first bit of wisdom and the prerequisite for all others is the realization that we are not wise | Peter Kreeft | ||
| aa0545f | From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of truth; that a great eucatastrophic tale like is a gift of divine grace, an opening of the curtain that veils Heaven to earthly eyes, a tiny telepathic contact with the Mind of God. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c190a00 | Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| a1b7cb2 | Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us? | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 53c1dae | Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said." -- | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 283c069 | This cultural Left thinks more about stigma than about money, more about deep and hidden psychosexual motivations than about shallow and evident greed. | Richard M. Rorty |