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“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.”

“Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.”

Kind Littles Different Real Dream Wonder Childhood Creatures Nightmare Multitudes Convincing Unnatural Day Life Procession

Book:JACK LONDON Ultimate Collection: 250+ Works in One Volume: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs, Essays & Articles (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Son of the Wolf, South Sea Tales, Children of the Frost, John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes…

Source: JACK LONDON Ultimate Collection: 250+ Works in One Volume: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs, Essays & Articles (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Son of the Wolf, South Sea Tales, Children of the Frost, John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes…

“On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Doe Able Certain Three Water Wonder Five Week Keys Six Hundred Sitting Scales Each Day Routine Sixty Buckets

Author:John McPhee

“Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.”

May Littles Bigs Science Universe Sound Wonder Week Theory Practicals Going Away Application Bangs Calculations Dilbert

Author:Scott Adams

“All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.”

Children Littles Parent Water Wonder Principles Taste Bitter Poison Fountain

Book:Locke, Berkely & Hume

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.”

Ifs Littles Sex Wonder Watches Stronger Fingers Twists

Author:James Thurber

“I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.”

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Author:Annette Bening

“Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.”

Littles Long Matter Facts Political Song Causes Bits Talking Wonder Cases Involved Little Bit Campaigns Motive Sarcastic Get Involved Matter Of Fact Aversion Political Campaign Endorsing

Author:John Fogerty

“In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.”

Feels Littles Might Earth Heaven Wonder Lord Taken Six More Time

Author:Kinky Friedman

“Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.”

Ifs Looks Littles Important Enough Heaven Stars Realizing Powerful Wonder Steps Tiny Supposed To Be Look Up About Yourself Insignificant Explosions Dots

Author:Alan Alda

“There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder”

Ifs Littles Two Wonder Approach Miracle Daily Life Little Things Absolutely Nothing

Author:Albert Einstein

“A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.”

People Littles Decision Numbers Wonder Morning Military Bed Monday Percentages Organisation Monday Morning Small Numbers Rationale

Author:Ricardo Semler

“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder where you are. Looking up is no solution; The sky's so full of light pollution.”

Littles Light Stars Wonder Sky Solutions Where You Are Pollution

Author:David H. Levy

“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker. [...] I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time.”

Ifs Heart Littles Sound Wonder Beats What If Speakers Microphones

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.”

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Author:Sybil Leek

“It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, "You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter." But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, "I wonder if I can do this." And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Littles I Can Kids Causes Goal Can Do Hours Wonder Stupid Victory Standing Graves Winner Just One Accomplished Someday Flags I Can Do This Very Stupid Personal Victory

Author:Kevin Smith

“The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.”

World Mind Humans Littles Has Beens Body Universe Existence Wonder Divine Sufficient Designer Convince Human Body Monument Creationism Microcosm Divine Wisdom

Book:Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit

Source: Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit

“I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and learn different concertos, but then I started rounding out my collection. My dad was a big jazz fan, so I just started hearing a lot more soul music. I loved Little Stevie Wonder, and I got really into him as a singer and a writer as I got older.”

Littles Different Soul Play Bigs Wonder Player Fans Dad Jazz My Dad Hearing Singers Collections Fascinated Violin Music Soul Cassettes

Author:Toby Lightman

“Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.”

Littles Ends Lost Wonder Too Much Manage Oppressors

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.”

“In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.”

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Author:Dennis Prager

“I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.”

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Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.”

Ifs Trying Years Littles I Can Stories Together Wonder Dare Drawing Internals Continents

Author:Anthony Marra

“In fact I wonder if I should bend my own rules a little and for the sake of writing a good song it doesn't have to been so autobiographical, but that's a stupid rule to live by as some of my favourite artists' songs, they have a song that you think is about their life [which] probably even isn't, but it's a great song.”

Ifs Thinking Should Writing Littles Facts Artist Song My Own Wonder Stupid Sake Live By Favourite Rules To Live By

Author:The Rocket Summer

“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.”

People Years Littles Sometimes Remember Bits White Wonder Couple Little Bit News Years Ago Strikes Bonnets

Author:David Sedaris

“My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.”

Knows Littles Courses Term Forget Cities Wonder Streets Dancing Motor Detroit Marvin

Author:David Maraniss

“I've been juicing lately, making different smoothies and such. It was interesting, and tough at first, but it's been doing wonders for me. I've been leaning in up, shedding fat, burning fat and I'm feeling good, feeling clean. My favorite so far is some almond milk with a little cinnamon there. It's good. I have that as a little night cap at the end of the day.”

“Even when I was a little boy, when I was seven, I absolutely loved Wonder Woman, and I saw her as one of the superhero greats with Superman and Batman, and I think it's because she was her own thing. She always felt like the real deal the same way that Superman and Batman did. Whereas the She-Hulks and Spider-Women and all that kind of thing felt like a continuation of a concept.”

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Author:Mark Millar

“If you were a person in Rockhampton who is wondering where your next job was coming from, and you had the prospect of one of Australia's largest ever coal projects with a very, very long life span being developed and reviving the regional economy. And you saw the Greens in particular doing their little best to stop it happening.”

Ifs Littles Persons Long Jobs Next Wonder Economy Saws Particular Projects Happenings Australia Coal Long Life Life Span

Author:George Brandis

“If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.”

Ifs Want Giving Kind Littles Use Able Guy Bits Wonder Car Little Bit Track Flash Bad Guys Wonder Woman Snuff Cyborg

Author:Ben Affleck

“The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.”

Men World Littles Hands Eye Wonder Miracle His Eyes Little Hands

Author:Baal Shem Tov