Gertrude Atherton Quotes

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

Gertrude Atherton

• Difference
• United States
• Dyspepsia

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• Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Difference

• The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Difference
  • Bread

• I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • College
  • United States

• I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Future
  • Say
  • United States

• If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Me
  • Celebrity

• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • United States
  • Iraq

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • United States
  • Tiger

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

• I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Comedy
  • Air
  • Difference

• The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Green
  • Difference

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Matter
  • United States
  • Where

• I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Great
  • Want
  • Difference

• In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Free
  • United States
  • Oyster

• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Think
  • Color
  • Difference

• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Think
  • Risk
  • Difference

• I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • United States

• The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Doing
  • United States
  • Frame

• There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • United States
  • Citizens
  • Welfare

• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Beautiful
  • Problem
  • Beauty

• It seems like they played really hard against Sacramento, didn't they? That was their other opponent they had an option to play. It would seem like they want to choose us.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Play
  • Option
  • Opponent

• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Difference
  • United States
  • Dyspepsia