“The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.” Quote by Shane Warren Jones
“I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.” ThinkingGuyWhiteInfluenceListeningCuresWhite Guys Author:Shane Warren Jones
“I like horses. My grandfather had a horse named Whiskey and I got to ride it all the time. They are terrifying and beautiful. If there's a beast taking you to heaven or hell it probably looks something like a horse.” IfsLooksBeautifulHeavenHellHorseBeastGrandfatherMy GrandfatherWhiskeyHeaven Or Hell Author:Shane Warren Jones
“If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.” IfsUsedLeftTasteAlcoholWhiskeyDessertScotchScotch Whiskey Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.” ThinkingArtRolesDramaTheatricalAmazing Experiences Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before.” WayTwoDifferentModernRevolutionApproachCookingTechniqueTraditionalTwo Ways Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better.” WorldLittlesTogetherLawBitsUnderstandingPrinciplesLittle BitCookingOilPhysicsCooksChemistryJuiceLemonsLaws Of PhysicsMayonnaiseWhiskLemon Juice Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.” PeopleWorldLife IsDiesBornFourSixOptimisticEvery Second Author:Christian Boltanski
“I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.” DyingMachinesFingersWhy NotWhy Now Author:Christian Boltanski
“I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.” TryingDoeDoneWholeShowsFightingMemoriesImpossibleDyingFilledWhole LifePreservesStopping Author:Christian Boltanski
“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.” TryingBelieveKindMadeWarProblemArtistThreeFatherSpeakI BelieveParentBoysFourOur LivesHistoricalTraumaSpokesSurvivorHidingHolocaust Author:Christian Boltanski