There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.
Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.
May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.
Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.
Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.