A. A. Gill Quotes, Promise Quotes, Lobster Quotes

Location | Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> A. A. Gill Quotes

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Promise Quotes , Lobster Quotes

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Happy Life Quotes , Important Choices Quotes

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Past Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Rooms Quotes , Chef Quotes

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

Admin

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Two Quotes , History Quotes