Louise Post Quotes

I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

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• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunities

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Life
  • Done
  • Anticipation

• I think I've been a great citizen.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Citizen

• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Me

• Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Humanity
  • Tragedy
  • Weapons

• There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Family
  • Lost

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Down
  • Run
  • Truck

• I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Together

• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Space

• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Important
  • Me
  • Support

• I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Power
  • Me

• First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Know
  • Said
  • Thank You

• People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Together
  • Fear

• Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

  

  Paul Verlaine
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Tears

• Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I knew I could always work harder and be better and show I'm more prepared. I had a whole science to, like, how you have to arrive 17 minutes early to something. If you're 20 minutes early, that means you're too eager, but 17 minutes gives you time to, like, settle, sign in, use the ladies' room, have some water, and get comfortable.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Time
  • Work
  • Science

• No woman anywhere should be denied access to quality healthcare because of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Quality
  • Health care

• I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

  

  Louise Post