#ten

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals. ↗

— Laura Shapiro

#food #food

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#against #available #balancing #cannot #conditions

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#hard #last #legs #me #much

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#based #confidence #details #discipline #excitement

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#books #every #guides #light #me

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#attention #being #being funny #deformed #funny

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#attention #class #class clown #clown #get

Then you shouldn't have thrown her away when she was your wife. Now she ain't. Now she's somethin' to me and I don't let men I don't like get close to her and I gotta tell you man, I do not like you. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#lauren #sweet-dreams #tate #dreams

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in. ↗

— John Blair

#arrest #assaulting #beaten #cell #charged

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#beauty #blow #easy #handshake #hear