M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.
Quotes to Explore
-
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
-
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
-
I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
-
I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
-
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
-
It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
-
From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
-
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
-
I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
-
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
-
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
-
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
-
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
-
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
-
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
-
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
-
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
-
The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
-
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
-
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
-
I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!
-
There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.
