Bourguignon Quotes

#1. When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven't made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren't a grown-up.

Nora Ephron

#2. Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.

Alan Wolfe

#3. Don't order boeuf bourguignon if you're a vegetarian, don't venture into the tearooms if you don't like ladies with lapdogs. Don't come to Paris if you're planning a solitary hike through a sexual desert.

Francine Prose

#4. I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

Debi Mazar

#5. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Michael Fassbender

#6. I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tracy Reese

#7. Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

Francois Bourguignon

#8. Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.

Chris Guillebeau

#9. He lowered his lips to hers, snatching the breath from her lungs, the thoughts from her head. There was only the feeling of his kiss, his mouth, his body.

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Laken Cane

#10. Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.

Vance Havner

#11. I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.

Adam Levine

#12. Class clowns become actors.

Jasper Fforde

#13. Miss Austen's novels ... seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer ... is marriageableness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically.

Geneen Roth

#15. Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

#16. What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

Danny Hillis

#17. I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

Karisma Kapoor

#18. Tonight, there's no one here to force myself to feel okay for, to smile or hold it together for, and I feel pretty bad.

Abigail Tarttelin

#19. A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

Estelle

#20. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

James Joyce