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food
He who feasts every day, feasts no day. Charles Simmons
food mean wind
In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess. Dave Barry
food mean needs
We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese. Catherine Bertini
food quality peppers
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. Bryan Q. Miller
food phones power trees
The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down. Kathleen Blanco
food
The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.' Niger Innis
food unhappy eating
It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating. Kurt Vonnegut
food yugoslavia pork
The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare. Ed Begley, Jr.
food poison virtue
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected. David Hume
writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
poetry-is happens
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Charles Bukowski
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning. William Shakespeare
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poetry-is
The poetry is myself. Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation. Joseph Brodsky
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Wallace Stevens
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.