Nancy Mitford Quotes

The test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

Nancy Mitford

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• I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Best
  • Thought

• It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Long
  • Family
  • Love

• I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Right
  • Places
  • Hug Me

• Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • May
  • Cool

• A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Space
  • Fly

• The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Believe
  • Why

• I'm easy to hate.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Hate
  • Easy

• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Team
  • Search

• I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Experience
  • Mean
  • Honest

• In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Value

• Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Lies
  • Friendship

• Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Try
  • Rainbow
  • Cloud

• Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World
  • Good

• Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.

  

  Keerthy Suresh

• I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

  

  Allan Savory
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Time
  • Taken

• Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Thinking
  • Normal
  • Harder

• I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Gold
  • Diamond
  • Afford

• I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

  

  Dyan Cannon
  • God
  • Real

• Yeah, Feed the Dog is just a really fun, teenage movie with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez and all these other great people. It's just so silly-funny, and my character's super-fun.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Fun
  • Teenage movie
  • Nat Wolff

• The test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Diamond
  • Cook
  • Eggs