#la

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#cheek #come #drunk #ever #face

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#declared #department #diplomacy #i #i believe

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#bunch #different #different things #doing #i

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#human intelligence #intelligence #intelligible #laws #mathematics

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ↗

— David Sylvian

#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak. ↗

— Michael Symon

#bringing #chef #classes #demonstrations #doing

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are. ↗

— Michael Symon

#assume #case #chefs #complain #i

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#bilingual #different #fair #favourite #foreign

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#beings #consciousness #cry #face #feel

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#irish #language #like #soothing