Fannie Farmer Quotes

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

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• Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Books

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Politics
  • Compassion

• Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Way
  • Education
  • Justice

• OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Boy
  • Magic
  • See

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Job
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Political
  • Energy

• I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Change
  • Forever

• I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Game
  • Man
  • Rock

• Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Change
  • Chaos

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• Prologues like compliments are loss of time;’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.

  

  David Garrick
  • Time

• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Success
  • Progress
  • Learn

• The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • Brain
  • Civilization
  • Contributions

• When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Been