Mitch Albom Quotes

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

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• Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Oil
  • Fish

• On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Love
  • Days
  • Cut

• You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Car
  • Hurt

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Love
  • Age
  • College

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• 'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Female

• The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Air

• I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Musicians

• A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Country
  • Play

• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Help
  • Want
  • Running

• Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Understand
  • Rules
  • Break

• I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Leadership
  • Diplomacy

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Lawyer
  • Horrible
  • Motive

• What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Always

• If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

  

  Mitch Albom
  • Always
  • Because
  • Going