Elizabeth David Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
-
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
-
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
-
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
-
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
-
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
-
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
-
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
-
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
-
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
-
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
-
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
-
Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
-
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
-
I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
-
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
-
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
-
There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.
-
Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.
-
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.
-
Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
