M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.

M. F. K. Fisher

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• I have played cricket on my own terms.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Own
  • Cricket
  • My Own

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • American
  • Rise
  • Stagnant

• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Small
  • Community
  • City

• I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Hard
  • Tough
  • Hearing

• I wanna live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Wanna

• For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Eyes

• You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Education
  • Support

• People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Looking
  • Perfection

• A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Work
  • School
  • Myself

• In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Long
  • America

• The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Song

• I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Mom
  • Artist
  • Said

• I'll always dance for fun, but for work? I've done it, dude.

  

  Kevin Federline
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.

  

  Bob Simon
  • People
  • Home
  • War

• I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

  

  Jehane Noujaim
  • People
  • Learning

• I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher