Rifat Kida Quotes & Sayings

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place. — Adriana Trigiani

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. — William Cowper

He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool. — Ted Bell

Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs? — Libba Bray

Writing is a form of self-flagellation. — William Styron

When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't real,' without assessing the facts, and it's a big problem. It's not a red or blue issue, it's a green issue ... Not because of facts or science but because of emotion. — Philippe Cousteau Jr.

Topics ... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics ... are what men talk about. — Patricia Gaffney

How was it possible to hate him so much and still need him so much at the same time? — Jenny O'Connell

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies — Steven Tyler

When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger — Lee Ryan

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. — Oscar Wilde

Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts:
1)Artificial censorship
2)Limitations of social contact
3)Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to public affairs.
4)Distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages
5)Difficulty of making a small vocabulary express a complicated world
6)Fear of facing those facts which would seem to threaten the established routine of men's lives — Walter Lippmann

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper. — Hunter S. Thompson