Delpeyrat Cassoulet Quotes

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba. ~ Julia Child

Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty. ~ Emmet Fox

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic. ~ Mark Leyner

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath. ~ William Blaikie

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more. ~ Ben Jonson

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil ... ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

in 1620 Kepler's mother was being tried for witchcraft. ~ James A. Connor

Being Number Two Sucks. ~ Andre Agassi

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind. ~ Patience Strong

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good. ~ Kim Edwards

Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feeling is as vast as your own; who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddies in a nearby stream, who loves her mother in her own complicated way, thinks her sister talks too loud, has a favorite cousin, a favorite season, who excels at dressmaking and knows, inside herself, that she is as intelligent and capable as anyone. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think life likes to do that every now and again. Every so often it likes to dip and when you feel like you can't take any more it smoothes out again. ~ Cecelia Ahern

By all means. Discuss. Oh. P.S. What's up with those Pakistani official forms (all of them, for everything) that insist you state your religion, and won't accept "none" for an answer? "None" is considered as "spoiling" the form and you have to fill out another one or risk the consequences, which might well be dire. I don't know if this is the case in other Muslim countries but I kind of suspect it might be. That's a little extreme, Religion, don't you think? Borderline fascistic, even? What sort of club is it that makes it compulsory to be a member? I thought ~ Salman Rushdie

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something. ~ Charles Manson

I wonder which will get you killed faster - your loyalty or your stubbornness? ~ Susan Ee

If you hate the Yankees so much," Connie asked me, "why did you move to New York?" "To find out what kind of city could make a monster like a Yankees fan. ~ Joshua Ferris