Almina Wombwell Quotes

#1. If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial

#2. It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

Neil Cavuto

#3. I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.

Stephanie Klein

#4. People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Bertolt Brecht

#5. I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

Emilio Ambasz

#6. I soon realized that what I really wanted was time to ruminate, time to observe, and often time to be alone.

Miss Read

#7. If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

Dick Cavett

#8. Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

George E.P. Box

#9. He was a dastardly fellow," the beer mug continued happily. "Truly repugnant. And smelled! Oh, lad, the stench could knock over an ox!

M.L. LeGette

#10. It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

James Gleick