Olney Quotes

#1. English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.

Alice Waters

#2. I still have a purblind academic image to uphold. I can't afford to let reality get in the way of my opinions.

George Olney

#3. Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask.

Christina Zilber

#4. There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.

Richard Olney

#5. The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Orson Scott Card

#6. There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

Juvenal

#7. To the army of common soldiers, who do the actual fighting, and risk mutilation and death, there is no reward except the consciousness of duty bravely performed.

Warren Olney

#8. If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

Muriel Rukeyser

#9. 'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it once. I'm saving it for the right moment.'

Amanda Steiger

#10. This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

Lea Salonga

#12. Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

Bill Bonner

#13. Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.
It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Judith Olney

#14. The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises' Gunthor said.
'Half a man I may be' Tyrion said. 'Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by?

George R R Martin

#15. Women are a very recent invention. I predate the invention of women by decades. Well, if you insist on pedantic accuracy, women have been invented several times in widely varying localities, but the inventors just didn't know how to sell the product.

Ursula K. Le Guin