Barbara Stocking Quotes

Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.

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• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Myself
  • See

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Think
  • Know

• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • World
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • New York

• I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Man

• Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Freedom
  • Own
  • Prosperous

• If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Build

• I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Good
  • Worry

• A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game

• They went to sea in a sieve, they did;In a sieve they went to sea;In spite of all their friends could say.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Friends
  • Sea

• Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Why

• I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Book
  • Lost

• I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dad

• The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

  

  Jane Bryant Quinn
  • Real

• In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.

  

  Logan Marshall-Green

• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • World
  • Food
  • Silence

• I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • Food

• Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Food
  • Shopping

• High above the lake a bomber flies.From the rowing boatsChildren look up, women, an old man. From a distanceThey appear like young starlings, their beaksWide open for food.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Up
  • Women
  • High

• I can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life that's not really memoir-worthy, and that would be fine!

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • Life

• Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.

  

  Barbara Stocking
  • Food
  • Despite
  • Hungry People