Hunan Quotes

#1. I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.

Graham Elliot

#2. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope.

Misty Copeland

#4. Why is it that girls think boys will notice them if they're loud anyway.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#5. The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.

Breyten Breytenbach

#6. But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.

Shawna Robinson

#7. Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!

Benny Hinn

#8. I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

Alice Oswald

#9. Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Miller

#10. I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

Nia Long

#11. There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.

Tim Jackson