Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Mae Brown

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

Michael Pollan

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

Paula Deen

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

Phil Harding

The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper, stable and more sustainable. We have a stark choice: We can stay stuck in the last century's boom and bust approach to our economy in the way we consume energy and resources, or create a sustainable, stable and renewable energy infrastructure with the long term environmental and employment benefits that ensue

Martin Schulz

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Martin Seligman

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Ledisi

I'm just happy that I'm able to take care of what I need to take care of, live, and do the thing that I love the most and that is to sing. People want to hear it, buy it, see it, hold it, record it, bootleg it. It's fine with me as long as it's good but when it's bad I'm in trouble!

Lech Walesa

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Laura Marling

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Bertrand Russell

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Linda Chandler

Live in your imagination, not in your past.

Jesse Ventura

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Jean de La Fontaine

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

Harriet Martineau

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

James Stephens

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

Nelly Furtado

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away ...

Cassandra Clare

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

Carly Simon

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

P. L. Travers

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

Kristin Kreuk

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.

Mohsin Hamid

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Mike Thompson

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

Kathy Freston

We've all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.