“My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.” ArtWantedMotherCareersHairPaperTablesProfessionKitchenPencilsKitchen TablePaper And Pencil Author:Alton Tobey
“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?” IfsThinkingYearsSaidHomeMotherReadingWinningStepsEnemyOne DayPaperI RealizedNewspapersOscarsPapers Author:Ferran Adria
“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.” KnowsMadeDreamBodyHandsEarthMotherSpeakPaperBirdTonguePens Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
“Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.” FacesMotherWalksPaperLateNotesGet UpSmokeUsualEconomistLecturesHalfwayWhiskeySockCigarSeminars Author:George Stigler