Batchelors Pasta Quotes & Sayings

My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought
it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to
be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely
sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him? — Juliet Marillier

Mentors have their own strengths and weaknesses. The good ones allow you to develop your own style and then to leave them when the time is right. Such types can remain lifelong friends and allies. But often the opposite will occur. They grow dependent on your services and want to keep you indentured. They envy your youth and unconsciously hinder you, or become overcritical. You must be aware of this as it develops. Your goal is to get as much out of them as possible, but at a certain point you may pay a price if you stay too long and let them subvert your confidence. Your submitting to their authority is by no means unconditional, and in fact your goal all along is eventually to find your way to independence, having internalized and adapted their wisdom. — Robert Greene

Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift. — Bonnie McFarlane

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true. — Hilary Mantel

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible. — Ernest Shackleton

My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady. — Philip Neri

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. — Bruce Lee

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling. — Denis Waitley

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews. — Abraham Foxman

Seriously," said Kami, her voice faint. "I think I left the oven on at home. Or the iron. Possibly both. — Sarah Rees Brennan

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party. — Patti LaBelle

It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of help which you can supply you have a human duty to supply it, even if it could inconvenience or even hurt you to do so. This, after all, is how the greatest and best deeds in the world have been done, and though the children did not say this aloud, they knew it inside themselves without even thinking about it. — Mary Stewart

With a single breath you can change your brain and transform your approach to everyday life. — Randy Kamen

I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly. — Sylvester McCoy

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself. — Malia Ann Haberman