Alice B. Toklas Quotes

I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

Alice B. Toklas

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• I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

  

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• I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

  

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• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

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• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

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• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

  

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• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

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• Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

  

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• I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

  

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• My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

  

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• One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

  

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• I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

  

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• I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

  

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• My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

  

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• It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.

  

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• The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

  

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• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

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• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  

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• I have anxiety and have had depression in the past.

  

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• You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

  

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• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

  

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• He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.

  

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• I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Wedding
  • French
  • Delicious