Top 33 Visser Quotes
#1. For instance, Visser, the Dutchman, had sold German machine guns to the Chinese, spied for the Japanese and served a term of imprisonment for killing a coolie in Batavia. He was not an easy man to handle.
Eric Ambler
#2. Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
Margaret Visser
#3. Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.
Margaret Visser
#4. We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable
Wayne Visser
#5. The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.
Lesley Visser
#6. All the cameras shifted from the players to me.
Lesley Visser
#7. I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.
Lesley Visser
#9. A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.
Margaret Visser
#10. The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.
Margaret Visser
#11. As people grow up, they teach themselves to do what distinguishes adults from children: they will choke and cough until they have mastered the cigarette, or force themselves to down bitter beer until they are ready to join the group that actually likes it.
Margaret Visser
#12. I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.
Lesley Visser
#13. It is the nature of human beings not to be able to leave nature alone.
Margaret Visser
#15. My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.
Lesley Visser
#16. Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
Lesley Visser
#17. We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.
Margaret Visser
#18. Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.
Margaret Visser
#19. Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.
Margaret Visser
#20. When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a lot of things in the workplace that you can attempt to hide, and I could not hide the fact that I was a woman. I was always the only woman in the press box, and they didn't even have ladies rooms.
Lesley Visser
#21. There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.
Wayne Visser
#22. I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.
Lesley Visser
#23. Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.
Wayne Visser
#24. Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize
to learn
that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.
Margaret Visser
#25. Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it-is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.
Margaret Visser
#26. The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent.
Margaret Visser
#27. What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.
Lesley Visser
#28. Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.
Margaret Visser
#29. May my enemies live long so they can see me progress.
Ninja Visser
#31. Well, yeah. Fireworks, the seventh Shy Maiden to dance out of the tree, stuff like that.
Nils Nisse Visser
#32. capital flows to wherever the social or environmental standards are lowest. Not only this, but capitalism is designed to create the instability that we have seen in the markets, and those that suffer the most from this volatility are always the most vulnerable, namely the poor of the world.
Wayne Visser
#33. That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.
Lesley Visser
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