Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) Quotes

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Man
  • Food

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Support
  • Health

• When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Feeling
  • Hair
  • Yourself

• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Success
  • Me
  • Couple

• I'm only a human being.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Best
  • Cultures
  • West

• You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Sad

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Lost
  • Moving
  • Dog

• What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Want
  • Wall
  • Creative

• I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Feel
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Start
  • Word

• A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Country
  • Death
  • Potential

• Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

  

  Aryn Kyle
  • Problems
  • Answer
  • Phone

• I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Rap

• The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Achieving
  • Ambitions
  • Ties

• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Musician
  • Taste
  • Traditional

• Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

  

  Curnonsky
  • Cooking
  • Taste