#ski

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#born #comes #everyone #i #influences

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#before #chefs #come #cooking #delivering

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#big #black #called #god #guy

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again. ↗

— Grace Slick

#again #anything #asking #did #fourth

I sometimes skip meals when I travel. ↗

— Amy Smart

#meals #skip #sometimes #travel

I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#being #exercise #i #skinny #too

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' ↗

— Henry Miller

#ask #asking #bring #damage #good

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity