Hamish Bowles Quotes
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
-
The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
-
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
-
Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
-
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
-
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
-
Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
-
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
-
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
-
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
-
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
-
A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
-
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
-
As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.
-
Why would anyone be interested in my little personal story if we can do without Homer's or Shakespeare's? Someone who truly loves literature is like a person of faith. The believer knows very well that there is nothing at all at the bureau of vital statistics about the Jesus that truly counts for him.
-
For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
-
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
-
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
-
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
