W Quotes
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“What luxury ingredient will it be this year?
Matsutake mushrooms?
"Returning" Skipjack?
Fresh soba?"
"IT'S MACKEREL PIKE!"
"Really? Pike?!"
"Umm... that's kind of a letdown, to be honest. They're such common fish..."
"Not so fast, folks.
It is true that throughout Japanese history, pike was viewed as a common fish that only the peasantry ate. But recently, high-class restaurants have begun serving it...
... and it now appears on the menus of restaurants across the world. It has become an unspoken representative of the Fall Fishing Season.
A dish that uses pike in some way...
... is the theme for the final round of this year's Fall Classic!"
"Mmm, pike! The first thing that springs to mind is yummy salt-grilled pike!
The crispy skin... the hot, succulent meat... the savory smell of its juices...
A dollop of grated daikon radish on top, and it's yum, yum, yum!"
"It's been showing up on sushi menus recently too. That's a general ingredient for you. You can do tons of stuff with it."
"As you all know, pike can be used in a wide variety of dishes. But strangely enough, this one ingredient...
... has connections to all three of our contestants.
A pike..
... with its fatty meat is known for its robust fragrance.
It is a prized ingredient in seafood dishes across the world.
And it has a long history of use in what is viewed as common cuisine!"
"Oho! It has facets that appeal to all three chefs."
"That means it's an ingredient that can play to each of their strengths!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 12 [Shokugeki no Souma 12]
“What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.”
“What luxury, to be so happy
that we can grieve
over imaginary lives.”
“What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.”
“What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.”
“What made a girl a damsel in distress? Were they not allowed claws? Mosca had a hunch that if all damsels had claws, they would spend a lot less time in distress.”
Source: Fly Trap
“What made a movie buff different from others was the amount of freakish details they chose to fill their heads with. The typical movie-goer remembered the big lines, the ones that you could find on the film’s shirts and posters. Just a bunch of tag-lines used for promotion. A true movie buff memorized the odd ones that said more about the story’s theme or characters. A true buff read up on the movie’s history.”
Source: The Muse
“What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: ‘Come, and everything will be given to you.’ She said: ‘Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.”
“What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.”
“What made her most beautiful, was the way she quietly touched those around her unknowingly changing the lives of the many, she smiled at. She didn't want praise; approval or admiration, she just wanted all of whom she loved to be the most authentic side of themselves & openly living to the means of their hearts & truth.”
Source: Once a Girl, Now a Woman
“What made it so special were the players. They were some of the most outstanding men I have ever been around in my life. The coaches were truly professionals. I wish the 49ers nothing but the best. I am thankful to the York family for having given me the opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL. I am indebted to them for that. I am also thankful for the Faithful fans, I am just sorry I couldn't give them more.”
“What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.”
“What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To Be More Creative, that's for sure... If startling insights could be systematically arrived at, they wouldn't be startling. The best you can do is to create a conducive environment: put in the hours; take time to daydream; avoid mind-corroding substances.”
“What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.”
“What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.”
“What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.”
Source: Galapagos: A Novel
“What made massive UN corruption possible was not so much the lies we told one another but the lies we told ourselves.”
Source: Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
“What made me decide to run was the dire state of the economy and the non-leadership of President Obama. At that point in time, my campaign put a mustache on Obama as part of the national campaign drive.”
“What made me empathic was my depressions.”
“What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.”
“What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was.”
“What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors
“What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.”
“What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.”
Source: Carnets, 1935-1942
“What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.”
“What made me want to be an actor? Ah, I'm not really sure, to be honest. I was one of those little kids who did it around school, and then I got to university and made lots of bad plays and short films, and then midway through that, it suddenly dawned on me that this might be a satisfying way to earn a living, if that was at all feasible.”
“What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.”
“What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.”
“What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.”
“What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.”
“What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. Days and years and feelings much the same, except that the children would grow up, and there might be one or two more of them and they too would grow up, and she and Brendan would grow older and then old.
It was not until now, not until this moment, that she had seen so clearly that she was counting on something happening, something which would change her life. She had accepted her marriage as one big change, but not as the last one.
So, nothing now but what she or anybody else could sensibly foresee. That was to be her happiness, that was what she had bargained for, nothing secret, or strange.
Pay attention to this, she thought. She had a dramatic notion of getting down on her knees. This is serious...
It was a long time ago that this happened. In North Vancouver, when they lived in the Post and Beam house. When she was twenty-four years old and new to bargaining.”
Source: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
“What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.”
“What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.”
“What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician - the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created.”
“What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone’s memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.”
Source: The Repeat Year
“What made our initial bond special is that it felt effortless.”
“What made sex so integral that people couldn’t separate the emotional
love they felt from one physical act?
Love shouldn’t hinge solely on exposing your physical body to another
person. Love was intangible. Universal. It was whatever someone wanted it
to be and should be respected as such.”
Source: Let's Talk About Love
“What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.”
“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You: A Novel
“What made Taein the Unkillable Kid was more than surviving the war that tore his realm apart and the hunt for his life that followed. It was more than almost starving to death in the wilds, it was more than the addictions that still hungered for his life. More than his time in the Blackblades, more than evading the Garrison, more than all the thrashings and scraps and botched brawls he’d ever gotten himself into. What made Taein the Unkillable Kid was the truth—that he literally could not die.
And Taein knew that for a fact, because he had tried to die more times than he could count.”
“What made the Badlands bad when you had food and water? Watching the sky turn first gold and then russet in the west; watching it turn purple and then starshot black in the east. She watched the days end with increasing dread: the thought of another endless night, the three of them huddled together while the wind whined and twined its way through the rocks and the stars glared down.”
Source: The Dark Tower
“What made the beauty of the moon?
And the beauty of the sea?
Did that beauty made you?
Did that beauty make me?
Will that make me something?
Will I be something?
Am I something? And the answer comes: already am, always was, and I still have time to be.”
“What made the process still longer was that it was profusely illustrated, not only with pictures, as that of old Queen Elizabeth, laid on her tapestry couch in rose-coloured brocade with an ivory snuff-box in her hand and a gold-hilted sword by her side, but with scents — she was strongly perfumed — and with sounds; the stags were barking in Richmond Park that winter’s day. And so, the thought of love would be all ambered over with snow and winter; with log fires burning; with Russian women, gold swords, and the bark of stags; with old King James’ slobbering and fireworks and sacks of treasure in the holds of Elizabethan sailing ships. Every single thing, once he tried to dislodge it from its place in his mind, he found thus cumbered with other matter like the lump of glass which, after a year at the bottom of the sea, is grown about with bones and dragon-flies, and coins and the tresses of drowned women.”
Source: Orlando
“What made the strongest impression on Alyosha in this face was its child-like, ingenuous expression. Her gaze was like that of a child, she took happiness in things like a child, namely in the way she had come over to the table 'rejoicing' and as if she were expecting something with the most childish, impatient and trustful curiosity. Her gaze enlivened the soul - Alyosha could feel that.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.”
“What made their marriage more than a run-of-the-mill case of domestic estrangement was her refusal to accept her lot. She stayed furious all the days of her life - so sure of her ground, so successfully spoiled, that she was impervious to the social pressures and propaganda that made most women settle down to play the part of wife.”
“What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth.”
“What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?”
Source: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats
“What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.”
“What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.”