Blanche Wiesen Cook Quotes
I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
-
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
-
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
-
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
-
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
-
I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
-
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
-
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
-
I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
-
My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.
-
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
-
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
-
I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
-
Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
-
Modernization means Westernization.
-
Listen, buds, it's March twenty first;Don't you know enough to burst?Come on, birds, unlock your throats!Come on, gardeners, shed your coats!
-
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
-
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
-
One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
-
You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
-
Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.
-
I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
