Duck Confit Quotes

#1. That if a civil war should break out in France, it would take a while to reach the south-west. I knew next to nothing about the south-west, really, only that it was a region where they ate duck confit, and duck confit struck me as incompatible with civil war.

Michel Houellebecq

#2. Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#3. Even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it.

Grizz Chapman

#5. Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.

Forrest Carr

#6. Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Milton Berle

#7. The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities ... there's a high probability of such an attempt.

Dick Cheney

#8. Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

Maat Morrison

#10. [Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3

Michel De Montaigne