Alexis Soyer Quotes

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

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• My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.

  

  Yuna
  • Style
  • Woman
  • Comfort Zone

• I don't know what love means.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Love
  • Know
  • Means

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• I'm hoping I'll eventually get to be a beauty blogger myself because I do my own makeup, and I have for years.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Myself
  • Beauty
  • Makeup

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Book
  • Place
  • Map

• The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Honor

• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Comedians

• This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • God
  • Idea
  • Compassion

• I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Surprised

• There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don't have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Picture
  • Process

• I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Social

• Lunch was my favorite part at school.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • School
  • Favorite
  • Lunch

• As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Kid

• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Think

• This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • World
  • Laughter

• At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Promise
  • Talent
  • Exist

• Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

  

  Alexis Soyer
  • Talent
  • Wit
  • Assistance