Calvin Trillin Quotes

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

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• My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • History
  • Strong

• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Software

• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Chance
  • Wise
  • Luck

• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Past
  • Me
  • Joy

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Up
  • Want
  • Ideas

• Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Character
  • Father
  • Never

• It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Me
  • Writer
  • Encouraged

• Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Myself
  • Year
  • Lazy

• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • People
  • College
  • Year

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Pain
  • Sick
  • Healthy

• I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Model

• I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.

  

  Luis Suarez

• My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fake
  • Very
  • Diet

• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Famous
  • Titanic

• Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

  

  Bruce Beresford

• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
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  • Food