M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.M. F. K. Fisher
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg -
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
Hailee Steinfeld -
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
Frances Beinecke -
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
Edgard Varese -
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen -
We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
Narendra Modi
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan -
I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
Jacki Weaver -
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
Gaston Caperton -
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
Dana Goodyear -
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell
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The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit -
I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
Imelda May -
I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
Jack Kerouac -
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White -
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois -
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Ian Hart
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift -
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Fernand Leger -
I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
Karrie Webb -
He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart.
Wallace Stevens -
How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.
M. F. K. Fisher