Laurie Colwin Quotes

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

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• When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Job
  • True

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Fame

• I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Years

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Literature
  • Camera

• I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Jeans

• If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Service
  • Test

• Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Relaxed

• You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Women
  • Freedom

• I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Different
  • Production
  • Finite

• We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Love
  • Honor

• Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.

  

  Dan Simmons

• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Children
  • City
  • Closing

• A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heaven
  • Flower
  • Grace

• I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish I'd read that book by Faulkner.' I want time to delve back into Thoreau and Kafka.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Time
  • World
  • Book

• I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Flying
  • Runaway

• I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

  

  Laurie Colwin