Karen Cushman Quotes

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

Karen Cushman

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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

• 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

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

  

  Fleur East
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Never

• 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

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

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Together
  • Culture

• 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

• I'm a total junk food-er.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Food

• I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Food
  • Teacher
  • Model

• Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Children
  • Today
  • Food

• The more you put in your body, the more you have to regulate it with insulin. So later kickoffs, you're talking about breakfast, lunch and a pregame meal, so that's more food you've got to be aware of and what you put in your body. A noon game, light breakfast, a little fruit and some insulin, and I'm good to go.

  

  Jay Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Food

• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Serious

• The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

  

  John Crowe Ransom
  • Poetry

• I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

  

  Les Baxter

• I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Writing

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

  

  Karen Cushman
  • Food
  • Mistake
  • Seems