#eve

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. ↗

— Big Bill Broonzy

#folk songs #guess #heard #horse #i

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#build #character #reveal

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#being #everybody #favours #free #free speech

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table. ↗

— Alton Brown

#also #believe #believer #big #big believer

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words. ↗

— Alton Brown

#calls #chef #cook #eat #ever

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about. ↗

— Alton Brown

#anymore #being #defensive #even #fake

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows. ↗

— Alton Brown

#cookbook #cooking #dark #day #eat

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#america #contribute #contributing #could #i

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#doing #fail #know #never #somebody