Sam Gideon Quotes

#1. The 'deep pause' needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a 'deep pause' to be deeply wasteful.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.

Emeril Lagasse

#3. The first twenty years of my life were wasted ... I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

Rose Wilder Lane

#4. To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

Clive Barker

#5. I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

Asne Seierstad

#6. Maybe the country doesn't pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I'm on a good wicket as well.

Shahrukh Khan

#7. Are you sure you weren't adopted?"
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.

Jana Deleon

#8. Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
And ever after called him a curse,
Then why did he hurry to let him in?
He could have hid in the house.

Stevie Smith

#9. I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

Ronaldinho

#10. More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a friend whom we have seen in the full bloom of health, but with whom, now, there is little to say and only our companionship to offer.

Alan S. Kesselheim

#11. Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction.

Michael Wall

#12. His face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Philip Pullman