M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
-
Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
-
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
-
I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
-
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
-
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
-
I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
-
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
-
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
-
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
-
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
-
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
-
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
-
When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
-
I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
-
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
-
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
-
The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
-
A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.
-
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
-
After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.
-
Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.
