Roseannes Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV? — Ellen Willis

Eventually, they can't speak, chew and swallow, or use the bathroom - not because those parts of their bodies no longer work but because they can't remember how. — Jane Gross

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. — Sophia Loren

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies. — Laura Mvula

No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st
Have some malignant power upon my life:
If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
As ending anthem of my endless dolour. — William Shakespeare

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. — Juan Williams

The art of making True promises within ones ownself is termed as Will (Sankalp) ... for beginners (like me) it is a tough learning and for siddhas; they just become that way ... effortlessly they sail ... — Dinesh Kumar

An unexpected guest, enjoying such lavish hospitality, should expect to sing for his supper. — Edward Rutherfurd

The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give. — Milton Friedman

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom
and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges. — David Deida

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day. — Joseph O'Neill

Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness. — Mary Balogh