Priscille Wylie Quotes

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come. ~ Andrew Wylie

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving. ~ Wylie Dufresne

As a pure source of reference, 'Modernist Cuisine' is incredibly helpful. It's like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It's not always the answer, but it's always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it. ~ Wylie Dufresne

What matters is what you are holding in your consciousness as to the possibility for your life now. ~ Karen S. Wylie MA

Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity. ~ James Aitken Wylie

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. ~ Andrew Wylie

I spread my arms. In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks. ~ Jen Wylie

It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care. ~ John Heywood

There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way. ~ Wylie Dufresne

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now. ~ Elinor Wylie

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art! ~ Elinor Wylie

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once. ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in. ~ Sarah Wylie

You know that song, 'Woodstock.' It says 'We are stardust.' And we are. We come from stardust. Everything on earth is just ashes. ~ Priscille Sibley

It's a funny thing, but it's often overlooked that I'm a huge devout lover of French cooking. I have the utmost respect for them, though they have lost their respect for me because they think the way I cook is nutty. ~ Wylie Dufresne

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said. ~ Philip Wylie

I will always wear this scar. It's called love. ~ Wylie R. Weeks

I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not ... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table. ~ Wylie Dufresne

An old Russian proverb . . . "Where hangs the smoke of hate burns a fiercer fire called fear."
The trick . . . was to keep that fire alive, but to know at the same time it might consume you also. Then the truck was to make the fear invisible in the smokes of hatred. Having accomplished that, you would own men's souls and your power would be absolute, so long as you never allowed men to see that their hate was but fear, and so long as you, afraid, knowing it, hence more shrewd and cautious than the rest, did not become a corpse at the hands of the hating fearful.
There, in a nutshell, was the recipe for dictatorship. Over the proletariat. Over the godly believers. Over the heathen. Over all men, even those who imagined they were free and yet could be made to hate.
Frighten; then furnish the whipping boys. Then seize. ~ Philip Wylie

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. ~ Philip Wylie

Cold-Blooded Creatures

Man, the egregious egoist
(In mystery the twig is bent)
Imagines, by some mental twist,
That he alone is sentient

Of the intolerable load
That on all living creatures lies,
Nor stoops to pity in the toad
The speechless sorrow of his eyes.

He asks no questions of the snake,
Nor plumbs the phosphorescent gloom
Where lidless fishes, broad awake,
Swim staring at a nightmare doom.

William Dunbar was one of the first great Scottish poets, and is also known for his poem "Lament for the Makiris" (Lament for the Makers, or Poets).

Elinor Wylie "was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry. ~ Elinor Wylie

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel. ~ Elinor Wylie

I have no interest in vegetarians whatsoever. Zero. Less than zero. ~ Wylie Dufresne

There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain ~ Philip Wylie

The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon. ~ Elinor Wylie

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely. ~ Wylie Dufresne

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy. ~ Philip Wylie

I'm marrying him because I admire his intelligence and his compassion. I'm marrying him because he's part of me already. Because he's the one person who has always known my heart. Because I could trust him to know what I needed if I couldn't figure it out by myself. Because he loves me, and I love him. And I need him. ~ Priscille Sibley

The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun. ~ Wylie Dufresne

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. ~ Andrew Wylie

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek
Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,
We shall live well
we shall live very well. ~ Elinor Wylie

It dawned upon everybody that Aggie, at perhaps a hundred and sixty pounds and five feet nine and a half, was, as Beth later said, 'dynamite in the physical culture department. ~ Philip Wylie

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind. ~ Philip Wylie

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible. ~ Wylie Dufresne

She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of a real heart? ~ Jen Wylie

Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live. ~ Sarah Wylie

There is a type of warfare in which the entire pattern is made up of a collection of lesser actions, but these lesser or individual actions are not sequentially interdependent. Each individual one is no more than a single statistic, an isolated plus or minus, in arriving at the final result. ~ J.C. Wylie

Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup. ~ Wylie Dufresne

We have fried things in cubes, historically. We tried bars of Hollandaise, we tried different shapes, but it ultimately seemed like the cube was the right shape. ~ Wylie Dufresne

God must hate common people, because he made them so common. ~ Philip Wylie