Metrodorus Quotes

#1. Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy.

Marcus Samuelsson

#2. Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Ruth Gordon

#3. At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they offer. Then governments may have to stop all the runaway spending and bailouts and even put up interest rates.

Luke Johnson

#4. When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.

Harvey MacKay

#5. What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of "duty"? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Never put bananas in the refrigerator.

Roz Chast

#7. None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

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#8. To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.

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#9. It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

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#10. I have always been running away from dance numbers. That's been my problem.

Sunny Deol

#11. A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.

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