Custardy Rice Quotes

#1. It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Marilynne Robinson

#2. Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

Steve Erickson

#3. The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.

Michael Pollan

#4. Semicolon, you dolt!

Jean Shepherd

#5. Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product.

Walter Isaacson

#6. If things are built on a poor foundation, there is absolutely nothing there".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#7. As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Rex Stout

#8. It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants
of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the
realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and
abstruse books of philosophy.

Czeslaw Milosz

#9. Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

Joseph Jacobs