W Quotes
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“What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.”
“What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.”
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
Source: Cosmos
“What an astonishing thing a book is.”
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
“What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“What an austere landscape! Borluut was alone, with nothing but the sky and water. No footsteps, apart from his own, marked the immense expanse, the white desert which this ancient outer harbour of Bruges now was.”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
Source: The Completely Fantastical Edition: The Field Guide; The Seeing Stone; Lucinda's Secret; The Ironwood Tree; The Wrath of Mulgarath
“What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.”
“What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.”
“What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.”
“What an effort she made to change me, and when it was clear those surface alterations would never occur, she began to mistake my solitary nature for sullenness, my laughter for mockery, my silence for a judgment I didn't start to feel until much later.”
Source: The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
“What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.”
“What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.”
“What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.”
“What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse”
“What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions
“What an ephemeral thing human will is, to be manipulated by a couple of drops of hormones!”
Source: Monstrous Beauty
“What an excellent great soul you are?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.”
“What an exciting age it is we live in
With all this talk about the hope of youth
And nothing made of youth.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.”
“What an expression of relief, my dear fiancée. However did you make your way through London society with such a revealing face? Not that I object, you understand." Leaning toward her, Mr. Knight smiled with the kind of intimate bewitchment that made her swallow to relieve her suddenly dry mouth. "When a woman is as beautiful as you are, she's usually adept at hiding her emotions. With you, I'll always know what gives you pleasure, and strive always to do as you wish.”
Source: One Kiss From You
“What an exquisite pike recipe. It was stunning from the very beginning, with the beautiful vision of its chef striding through the silvered moonlight to present his dish. The plating and presentation showed a thorough grasp of modern cooking trends, an important skill for all chefs. Given how the entire crowd was leaning forward in their seats, I can only say that his plan to draw attention to himself and away from his competitors was a rousing success. Most Acqua Pazza recipes involve anchovies in some fashion, but as his used herb butter, he wisely omitted them. Had both ingredients been included, their flavors would have clashed, muddying the overall taste of the dish. That herb butter, in fact, was the keystone upon which the whole dish rested. The butter's mellowness melded with the strong-tasting juices of each individual ingredient, underscoring them with a common flavor and tying them together, while the refreshing scent of the herbs kept the powerful impact of the dish's flavor from lingering too long on the tongue, making it instead a sharp and quick jab. That in turn masterfully accentuated the strong fragrance of the in-season pike. Both the herb butter and the heat-resistant film worked in perfect harmony for the sole purpose of emphasizing the deliciousness of the chosen pike...”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 12 [Shokugeki no Souma 12]
“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“What an extraordinary creature," Win heard Dr. Harrow murmur nearby. She followed his gaze to the lady of the house, Mrs. Annabelle Hunt, who was greeting guests.
Although Win had never met Mrs. Hunt, she recognized her from descriptions she had heard. Mrs. Hunt was said to be one of the greatest beauties of England, with her beautifully turned figure and heavily lashed blue eyes, and hair that gleamed with rich shades of honey and gold. But it was her luminous, lively expressiveness that made her truly engaging.
"That's her husband, standing next to her," Poppy murmured. "He's intimidating, but very nice."
"I beg to differ," Leo said.
"You don't think he's intimidating?" Win asked.
"I don't think he's nice. Whenever I happen to be in the same room as his wife, he looks at me as if he'd like to dismember me."
"Well," Poppy said prosaically, "one can't fault his judgment." She leaned toward Win and said, "Mr. Hunt is besotted with his wife. Their marriage is a love match, you see."
"How unfashionable," Dr. Harrow commented with a grin.
"He even dances with her," Beatrix told Win, "which husbands and wives are never supposed to do. But considering Mr. Hunt's fortune, people find reasons to excuse him for such behavior."
"See how small her waist is," Poppy murmured to Win. "And that's after three children- two of them very large boys.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!”
“What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.”
“What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.”
“What an honor that Stephen Prouty got nominated for best makeup and hairstyling for Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa. Am I as stunned as everyone else we didn’t get the nod for best picture? Well of course, duh, but I won’t let that take away from my happiness for Steve, Tony Gardner, and our whole makeup team. Wahoo!”
“What an honor. What a responsibility. What a gift we have been given to be born in an atmosphere with oxygen and carbon dioxide and millions of years and phenotypes cheering us on with recycles of energy.”
Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to be a catcher of souls! We are workers together with God, says the apostle. If God has ever so honoured thee, O that thou knewest it, that thou mightst bless his holy name, that ever made such a poor fool as thee to be a co-worker with him. God has owned thee to do good to those who were before caught. O my soul, bless thou the Lord. Lord, what am I, or what is my father's house, that thou hast brought me to this?”
“What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.”
“What an idiot I am. I created a pact with children. Not even a blood pact but a vow that yields nothing for my kettle or Wake. A vow born of weakness. But a vow all the same. I will not fail them, no matter the cost.”
Source: Bearly Gold: A Goldilocks and the Three Bears Reimagining
“What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.”
“What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible purpose of the engine, and between them man, equally alien from the being of Nature and the doing of the machine, the vile becoming!”
Source: decline and fall
“What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!”
Source: The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
“What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.”
Source: The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition
“What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.”
“What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.”
“What an impact! Wrapped together in strips of piecrust...
... the two distinct layers of stuffing each amplify the deliciousness of the other!
The top layer is a chicken mousse! Tender, juicy cooked chicken...
... put through a food processor with heavy cream and seasonings until it was a silky-smooth puree! Its thick yet gentle savory flavor, accented with a touch of sweetness, slides across the tongue like satin!
And the bottom layer is a beef meat loaf!
Its flavors are perfectly paired with both the creamy chicken mousse and the demi-glace. What a frighteningly defined dish!"
"Okay, but he used convenience store food for all that?! There's no way it could be that delicious..."
"Oh, but it is. His skill elevated the ingredients to new heights."
"Um, i-it really wasn't all that much. All I did was, well...
To give the chicken mousse a more luxuriant texture, I carefully mixed in some egg whites beaten into a stiff meringue...
And then added a little mushroom paste (Duxelles) to boost its richness.
Canned mushrooms have a mild funk to them, so to get rid of that smell, I minced and sautéed them until nearly all their moisture was gone.
I also reduced some red wine as far as I could, leaving behind just its umami components, and added that to the demi-glace.
It isn't the best, but I had only cheap ingredients to work with.
What about that isn't "all that much"?!
"The main common ingredients he used were a precooked hamburger patty, chicken salad and a frozen piecrust.
They're prepackaged foods anyone can buy, designed to be tasty right out of the box. In other words...
They're average foods with completely average flavors! Use them as they are and you'll never pass this trial!
Out of all of them, he singled out the ones that could stand up to haute cuisine cooking...
... and melded them together into a harmonious whole that brought out their best qualities while eliminating anything inferior!
It's a level of quality only someone of Eishi Tsukasa's skill could reach!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 33 [Shokugeki no Souma 33]
“What an incredible drug fear is.”
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.”
“What an incredibly dumb thing I have done. Curious what I have done? I doubted myself.”
“What an incredibly proud moment as a Canadian to have the Canadian flag on the left shoulder of your space suit, looking at the Canadian logos on the robotic arm in the payload bay of the space shuttle, and there's the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, which was an extension of the Canadarm to inspect the tiles underneath the orbiter. It struck me that there were more Canadian logos in space than any other country's I saw.”
“What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.”
Source: Dark Places: A Novel
“What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.”
“What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!”
Source: James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him