Mekhai Cook Quotes & Sayings

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness. — Ernest Hemingway,

For if light had a sound, it was that laugh. — Julie Anne Long

Another huge new development was going up to improve life for all of us by turning trees and animals into cement and old people from New Jersey. — Jeff Lindsay

We're a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating are taking a dire toll on our health
most tragically for our kids, who are predicted to be this country's first generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. That alone is a stunning enough fact to give us pause. So is a government policy that advises us to eat more fruits and vegetables, while doling out subsidies not to fruit and vegetable farmers, but to commodity crops destined to become soda pop and cheap burgers. The Farm Bill, as of this writing, could aptly be called the Farm Kill, both for its effects on small farmers and for what it does to us, the consumers who are financing it. — Barbara Kingsolver

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence. — Marge Piercy

I don't like people who try to say only what they think I think. — Ayn Rand

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. — William Howard Taft

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. — Richard Schmid

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song. — Dolly Parton

I'm just a holy fool — Lady Gaga

Mission exists because worship doesn't. — John Piper

I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. No wonder I like the Italians! — Sandra Cisneros