Alan King Quotes

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.

Alan King

Quotes to Explore

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

Rachel Kushner
- Life
- Art
- Extraordinary
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

Felicia Day
- People
- Character
- Girl
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

J. G. Ballard
- War
- Father
- Year
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

Nathan Bedford Forrest
Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
- Up
- Men
- Look
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

N. Scott Momaday
- Land
- Landscape
- Isolation