For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunnaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the… — Hammurabi Copy Share Image
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“..but if it does occur, then anyone can comprehend that above us and below us, outside of ourselves and deep within ourselves,… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read.… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image