The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!


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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA
So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. HAYAKAWA
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON
How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON
More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON
My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON
If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON
My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON
You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE
This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the me...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the b...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in L...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
The brain abhors discrepancies.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN