Paul Bettany Quotes

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

But I think it's important that things endure.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to eating a lot of processed foods. I think it's the preservatives that keep me going. That, and I eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on.

When a raw food becomes processed food, it can be best valued, protected, stored, and safely delivered to customers.

I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

Look closely at what is dubbed the American model, and what do you see? Drugs, alcohol, drunken driving, sex on television, pornographic films ... AIDS which is caused by the spread of homosexuality ... women and men kissing in public, and growing poverty due to economic policies geared exclusively to serve the well off.... Their very technology is saturated with eroticism, and that is what they export to Egypt in the form of movies and television serials

Make sure that they do not break anything because we are coming back in 4 years

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.