Delicious Quotes - Page 11

• It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

  Didi

  Beautiful, Children, Joy

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Math, Squares

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1386, Library of America

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• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Lying, Forever

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return. It's very simple.

  Thomas Berry

  Teaching, Simple, Destiny

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• Hundreds of stupid flies gather
  On a piece of rotten meat,
  Enjoying, they think, a delicious feast.
  This image fits with the song
  Of the myriads of foolish living beings
  Who seek happiness in superficial pleasures;
  In countless ways they try,
  Yet I have never seen them satisfied.

  7th Dalai Lama

  Song, Stupid, Thinking

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• Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

  Robin Maxwell

  Danger

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• I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

  Pierre Loti

  Past, June, Self

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• Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it--the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.

  Mary Oliver

  Laughter, Giving Up, Crazy

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.11, Penguin

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• Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.

  Joan Jett

  Fun, Book, People

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• As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Kids, Custody

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• I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Chocolate, Good Book

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• Life is so endlessly delicious

  Ruth Reichl

  Life Is

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• Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Thinking, Talking

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

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• When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.

  Emma Thompson

  Guarantees That, Giving, Support

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• When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Destiny, Wind

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

  Harry Mathews

  Children, Home, Boys

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

  Tyler Cowen

  Fire, Flavor, World

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• It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

  Esther Williams

  Water, Audience, Invited

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• A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

  Lisi Harrison

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Burritos

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• This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

  Barry Mazur

  Book, Unique, Views

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• I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

  Kris Carr

  Witty, Inches

  Kris Carr, Sheila Buff (2011). “Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!”, p.246, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.

  India de Beaufort

  Dream, My Boyfriend, Watching Tv

  "India De Beaufort Answers Our 17 Questions!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I really enjoy simple things in life. I just like the idea of bringing together a few ingredients and being able to transform it into something delicious and warm that my friends can sit around and enjoy. Most of my socializing is based around good food and good wine.

  Haley Bennett

  Wine, Simple, Things In Life

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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