#mid

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job. ↗

— Ted Allen

#barriers #break #chefs #differently #down

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#blessed be #brings #childhood #down #heaven

It's easy now - it's middle-aged lady, nobody's looking, nobody notices. I go without lipstick if I feel like it, and I always wear my comfy clothes. It's a life with fewer distractions, but should something beautiful show up, a middle-aged woman is free to stare. ↗

— Abigail Thomas

#age

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#any #cannot #could #enough #force

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#happens #i #middle #personal #sadness

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comes #composition #design #drawing #equilibrium

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#centuries #christians #east #jews #middle

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#bush #central #claim #cure #democracy

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#huge #i #middle #rather #road

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. ↗