Gift Of The Magi Della Quotes

#1. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

Jacques Pepin

#2. The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit.

Louise Penny

#3. Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work ... hard work of course!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

Joan Didion

#6. A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

Anita Shreve

#7. You raised your kids to be independent, strong, and think for themselves. So once they're grown, why is it so hard to let them do it?

Jane A. Adams

#8. An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#9. A man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.

Orson Scott Card