Hippocrene Cookbook Quotes

#1. I used to love Bach.

Josh Silver

#2. The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#3. Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

John Green

#4. If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

Steve Rizzo

#5. It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

Jack Tatum

#6. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.

Sri Chinmoy

#8. We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

Mother Teresa

#9. But the trade-off for my self-respect was a cold bed and an over-used vibrator, and it was starting to wear thin.

Sierra Simone

#10. I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

Pat Buckley

#11. As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.

William Monahan

#12. The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Noam Chomsky