#up

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. ↗

— Paul Getty

#outstanding #status #suppose #symbols #were

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then. ↗

— Michael Symon

#around #back #day #dinner #down

I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees. ↗

— Michael Symon

#almost #employees #first #foundation #gave

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. ↗

— Michael Symon

#cookbook #doing #food #good #how

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade. ↗

— Ryan Sypek

#baseball #center #ever #field #good

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me. ↗

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#always #back-up #ever #had #i

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#face #find #forced #glimpse #going

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #more #numerous #state

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. ↗

— William Godwin

#assistance #cases #certain #forbearance #kinds

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ↗

— Hippolyte Taine

#cats #i #infinitely #many #philosophers