Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.
Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.
Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.
I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.
I don't eat a lot of anything. A little bit of everything, but not a lot of everything. Small meals all day long.
There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L. A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house. ' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.
Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married. " Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.
Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.
duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.