#able

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife. ↗

— Ruth Reichl

#food #history #table-manners #food

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#best #energy #here #improve #miserable

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#inner #inseparable #into #man #moves

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#argument #depth #get #i #into

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#borrow #capable #crisis #currency #debt

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#five #harm #here #irreparable #me

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#depraved #financially #morally #politically #profitable

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#belief #capable #career #come #complicated

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). ↗

— James Thurber

#bed #butler #cope #described #formidable

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#artists #backgrounds #bad #being #cool