39426 Quotes & Sayings

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties. — Eliza Acton

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best. — Rick Warren

When you look at the government, when the government collects a buck, it's not free. They have to spend resources, the IRS, audits, all this sort of crap, to collect the dollar. I'm not assuming any Laffer curve effect here at all. There are just transactions costs of collecting that money. — Arthur Laffer

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were. — Mark Twain

Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum. — Joshua Cohen

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing. — J.K. Rowling

Hunger is good discipline. — Ernest Hemingway,

Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others. — Oprah Winfrey

When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling ... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension. — David Oyelowo