Chewin The Fat Quotes & Sayings

My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory. — Iris Apfel

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. — William Blake

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

I love my jackets and good tailoring. I love the designs and the colour. — John Boyega

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing. — Kathy Najimy

I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself. — William Shakespeare

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

It's the way some med say, "I'm not the problem" or that they shifted the conversation from actual corpses and victims as well as perpetrators to protecting the comfort level of bystander males. An exasperated woman remarked to me, "What do they want--a cookie for not hitting, raping, or threatening women? — Rebecca Solnit

The most important thing about priorities and posteriorities is not intelligent analysis but courage. — Peter F. Drucker

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew. — Jewel

Why were American kids consistently underestimated in math? In middle school, Kim and Tom had both decided that math was something you were either good at, or you weren't, and they weren't. Interestingly, that was not the kind of thing that most Americans said about reading. If you weren't good at reading, you could, most people assumed, get better through hard work and good teaching. But in the United States, math was, for some reason, considered more of an innate ability, like being double-jointed. — Amanda Ripley

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose. — Frank Tyger

Enron followed the unwise practice of paying bonuses based on forecasted profits, not actual cash flows, a system that posed a problem remarkably similar to the R&D issues Gluck and his colleagues had solved at Northern Electric years earlier. In short: You can forecast anything. Delivering actual results is a different story. The emphasis on forecasts also neutralized Enron's so-called risk-management group, which became a shrinking violet in the face of ever more outrageous estimates. — Duff McDonald

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it. — David Foster Wallace

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love. — Douglas Wood