#lou

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #american #caves #enmity #exploded

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#i #i can #like #make #mundane

There are some things that don't change much. I find the smell of a dish, or the way a certain spice is crushed, or just a quick look at the way something has been put on a plate, can pull me back to another place and time. I love those memories that seem so far away, yet you can hold them and carry them with you, even forget them, and then, with a single taste or hint or a smell, be chaperoned back to a beautiful moment. ↗

— Tessa Kiros

#falling-cloudberries #foodie #sentimental #beauty

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor. ↗

— Gary Busey

#being #good #good actor #got #life

I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped. ↗

— Lauren Bush

#big #big deal #bit #college #college kids

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... ↗

— John Coldstream

#description #imagery #natural-world #silk #sunset

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#bear #being #business #called #gregarious

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— Lord Byron

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#cake #comes #dancer #decorating #discipline