Cressida Cowell Quotes

Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow.

Cressida Cowell

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• Stood Up
• Isle
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• Berk

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Think
  • Year

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
  • Justice
  • Military

• Pave your own path and be fearless.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Path
  • Own
  • Fearless

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Years

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• The world is no longer against us.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Against
  • U.S.

• I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Suspicious

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Said
  • Kitchen
  • Restaurant

• I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Stop
  • Pressure
  • Threats

• I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Relationship

• If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Paint

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Today
  • Training

• 'It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature sons and daughters who will in My name exercise dominion over the earth and subdue Satan, the unruly, the rebellious. Take back My world from those who would loot it and abuse it. Rule as I would rule.'' - The Secret Kingdom

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Simple
  • Holocaust

• I think my first-ever car was a Chevrolet, 1960.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Car

• Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

  

  Bill Watterson
  • Winning
  • Snow

• You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Good
  • May
  • Food

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Soul
  • Feelings
  • Laughing

• 'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Feeling

• Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Snow
  • Stood Up
  • Isle