“Linguistics will become a science when linguists begin standing on one another’s shoulders instead of on one another’s toes.”

Stephen R. Anderson, American Linguist

“All countries live by myths.”

Bernard Cornwell, English Author

“I don’t care what they say. London Fog is a great name.”

Robert Morse (as Bertram Cooper) in Mad Men

“Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.”

Mariska Hargitay, American Actress

“You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.”

Walt Disney, American Icon

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”

Galileo Galilei, Italian Astronomer

“Never eat at a place called ‘Moms’, but if the only other place in town has a sign that says ‘Eats’, go back to Moms.”

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.”

Fernand Point, French Restaurateur

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French Epicure

“The story – from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace – is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”

Ursula K. Le  Guin, American Author