“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.” ThinkingWritingYearsBookBigsUsedNovelTakenHeardSeriousEatingNineNine Years Author:Ian Rankin
“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.” TwoWarEndsSometimesLanguagePoorWatchesBreakTakenGroupsSocietyStrangeHolyCreaturesBehaviorEatingRiversEggsCommandmentsTribesMonkeysPotatoesHeresyWashingCrusadesDivingBewilderment Author:Arthur Koestler
“Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.” NeedsFallTakenTroubleFoodProductsTruth IsEatingInfiniteCookingConsumersEating FoodBest Food Book:Personal Pleasures Source: Personal Pleasures
“all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.” ShouldSexLove IsPleasureTakenEatingDetailsHatsLunchLeisure Book:Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?” PoorCompanyTakenGreaterEatingMortalsMealsGood MealsLoving Friends Book:Lark Rise to Candleford Source: Lark Rise to Candleford
“Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.” TwoHomeGirlPayTakenFiguresEatingStoresEveningEtcCakeBasketsDimesRefreshmentsDoxies Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.” PeopleThinkingCompanyTakenEatingClothesStudiosCorporateCorporationsCoastAmerican LifeRecording StudioThinking The Same Author:Bob Dylan
“I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food.” LongKidsAgeYoungEnjoyKnownTakenGroupsMomDrinkHealthyEatingLong TimeFishesMy MomOilGrassYoung AgeVitaminsChoresPowderHealthy FoodEating HealthyGroup Of FriendsBarleyMultivitaminsHealthy Kids Author:Blake Griffin