1317 Eugene Quotes

#1. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.
And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.

Piet Hein

#2. This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.

Graeme Simsion

#3. Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

Barack Obama

#4. Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Omar N. Bradley

#5. Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

Diane Lane

#6. Then television took over, birthing the ultimate in lockstep culture.

Chris Anderson

#7. Great journey, great joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. People just ... disappear," he says.
"The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex.
"Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie."
"Ominous." I nod my agreement.
"It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.

Bret Easton Ellis

#9. Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Keith Ellison

#10. Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Havelock Ellis

#11. Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

Joyce Meyer

#12. The true answer to seduction is to open people's eyes to the shallowness of the "beauty" on offer. The

Iain M. Duguid