Karen Cushman Quotes

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

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• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Food
  • Ship

• When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Food
  • Eat

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Health
  • Dark

• I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.

  

  Fleur East
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Never

• Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Work
  • Different
  • Why

• I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Learning

• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistake

• You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Together
  • Culture

• Food is a lens for culture.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Lens

• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • House
  • Education

• The food surpluses produced by peasants, coupled with new transportation technology, eventually enabled more and more people to cram together first into large villages, then into towns, and finally into cities, all of them joined together by new kingdoms and commercial networks.

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • People
  • Together
  • Food

• It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Up
  • Character
  • Help

• Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

  

  Masaharu Morimoto
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Marriage

• I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Work
  • Food

• We love food. After our studio session, we devour dal makhani, butter chicken, and butter naan.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Food

• I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Food

• I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Food
  • Respect

• I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Good
  • Food
  • Perspective

• The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Mistake
  • Condition
  • Enthusiast

• Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Time
  • Live
  • Movie

• Out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Respect
  • Desire
  • Nation

• Fear too often spells failure.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Often

• Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

  

  Karen Cushman
  • Food
  • Mistake
  • Seems