Elizabeth David Quotes

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

Elizabeth David

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• 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.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Yourself
  • Labor
  • Masses

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• 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.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • 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.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Want
  • Best

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Value
  • Performance

• My goal is to always be improving my skills.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Always
  • Goal
  • Skills

• For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Up

• U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Albums
  • Finished
  • Released

• When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a number of firms were not dotting the i's and crossing the t's when it comes to risk management.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Risk
  • Management

• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Judging
  • Surprise

• Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

  

  Elizabeth David
  • Writing