Mandy Patinkin Quotes
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
Quotes to Explore
-
EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
-
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
-
Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
-
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
-
Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
-
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
-
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
-
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
-
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
-
Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
-
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
-
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
-
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
-
When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
-
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
-
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
-
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
-
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
