#mist

Something must be done about the food.” Seeing his speculative glance Clare laid down her fork and gave him a warning scowl. “Yes, I’m a good cook, but I will not have time to work in the kitchen. And don’t try to convince me that a mistress also has to cook for her lover.” “I wasn’t thinking of wasting your valuable time in the kitchen.” He smiled mischievously. “But a mistress can do interesting thing with food. Shall I describe them?” “No!” “Another time, perhaps. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#food-love #mistress #food

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#easily #making #making mistakes #me #mistakes

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#east #forgive #grit #having #mistakes

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#intelligence #mistakes #self-recognition #forgiveness

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#choice #chooses #evils #pessimist #two

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cost #cover #divorced #economics #economists

The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love. ↗

— Ildefonso Falcones

#love #mistakes #past #forgiveness

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#else #enough #get #having #i

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#give #mistakes #name #our #simply

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress. ↗

— Maurice Wilkins

#general rule #going #i #make #mean