Elbulli Quotes

#1. Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

Gore Vidal

#3. RVM Thought for Today -
The simplest way to Rejoice is to count your Blessings and be Grateful for them. You will automatically feel joy in your Heart.

R.v.m.

#4. The language of science - and especially of a science of man - is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Thomas Szasz

#5. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Nick Denton

#6. The Mall Of America, outside Minneapolis, is just a mall. Yeah, it's big. So, like, instead of your typical 12 Starbucks, there are 30.

Adam Schlesinger

#7. In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

David Leavitt

#8. In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

Ferran Adria

#9. We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.

Jo Ann Beard

#10. Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

Elton John

#11. I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

Anthony Bourdain

#12. Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

John Knox

#13. It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

Robert Charles Wilson

#14. God never closes one door in our lives without opening a new one. Many times it's a much better road for us behind that new door, if we just trust in his love for us and take the new path.

Heather McBride