Al-Shafi‘i Quotes

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

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• Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Best
  • Pie
  • Controversial

• I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Strikes
  • Prohibition Law

• It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

  

  Confucius
  • Failure
  • Appreciate
  • Abilities

• If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Knows
  • Going To

• ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Word
  • Unfortunate
  • Associated

• I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Believe
  • Animals
  • Grow

• Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.

  

  Sharleen Spiteri Texas
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mistake

• And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Run
  • Sail
  • Splendid

• In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Cry

• When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.

  

  Alexandra Potter
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Fantasize

• I like to produce my own records, because I know in my head where I want to take it.

  

  John Rich Lonestar
  • Records
  • Head
  • Take

• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • People
  • Real
  • Strange

• If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Love
  • Literature
  • Sincere

• I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer – songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

  

  Casey Spooner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Joke

• The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Money
  • Gives
  • Great Deal

• I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Write
  • Difficult
  • Cultures

• Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Sincere
  • Recognizes