During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs. , so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.
A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.
"If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!"
Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.