Flemings Menu Quotes & Sayings

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the Madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure. — Anna Quindlen

If it was true. This case was jammed with lies, couldn't grab hold of it without getting a handful. — Tana French

Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends. — Erasmus

Mathilde returned and strolled past the drawing-room windows; she saw him busily engaged in describing to Madame de Fervaques the old ruined castles that crown the steep banks of the Rhine and give them so distinctive a character. He was beginning to acquit himself none too badly in the use of the sentimental and picturesque language which is called wit in certain drawing-rooms. — Stendhal

You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too. — Xaviera Hollander

Acting like you don't care is a whole lot easier when you don't care — Ally Carter

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from. — Enya

You don't want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances. — Sarah Noffke

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. — Richard Koch

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) — Billy Graham

SCREW PERFECTION. Perfect is the archenemy of Better. Perfect is boring. Perfect is unattainable. — Fay Wolf

Truth cared nothing for stories. The real world was indifferent to what people wanted to be, to how they wanted everything to turn out. Betrayers came from everywhere, including inside his own body, his own mind. He could trust no one, not even himself. — Steven Erikson