Maria de Medeiros Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
-
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
-
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
-
I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
-
We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
-
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
-
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
-
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
-
Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
-
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
-
I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
-
I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
-
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
-
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
-
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
-
We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
-
Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.
-
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.
-
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
-
I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.
-
Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
-
I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'
