Ellen Stofan Quotes

If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.

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• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Style
  • Like
  • Excellent

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Reality
  • Intelligence

• In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Choices
  • Biggest

• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• Humor is a part of spirituality.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Humor
  • Part
  • Spirituality

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Time
  • God
  • Business

• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Yourself
  • Others
  • Rather

• I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Think
  • Always
  • Answer

• People who invented the word charity, and used it in a good sense, inculcated more clearly, and much more efficaciously, the precept, Be charitable, than any pretended legislator or prophet, who should insert such a maxim in his writings.

  

  David Hume
  • People
  • Good
  • Charity

• For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

  

  Plato
  • Ideas
  • Cause
  • Misanthropists

• Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

  

  James Gleick
  • Earth
  • Interesting
  • Profound

• If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Earth
  • Attention
  • Universe

• If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Earth