Alexis Lichine Quotes

A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

Alexis Lichine

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• Meal
• Delectation

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• People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Go
  • Extraordinary

• Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Red
  • Look

• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Men
  • Dedicated
  • Jerks

• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• Trends don't interest me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Trends

• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • First
  • Wanted
  • Just

• I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Special

• I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Past

• The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Law
  • Abuse

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Earth

• We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Revolution

• They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mistake

• Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Law
  • Practice
  • Senior

• It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I have motor oil running through my veins.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Running

• Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

  

  John Milton
  • Victory
  • Revenge

• The things are mighty few on earthThat wishes can attain.Whate'er we want of any worthWe've got to work to gain.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Work
  • Wishes

• Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Words
  • Food
  • For Her

• And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Love
  • Enough

• A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

  

  Alexis Lichine
  • Wine
  • Meal
  • Delectation