Quotes - Jane Anne (Towson, MD) Showing 1-30 of 104

#1

“Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.”
― Peter Mayle

tags: positive-outlook

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#2

“Best advice I've ever received: Finish.”
― Peter Mayle

36 likes

#3

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

1264 likes

#4

“Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

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#5

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

1531 likes

#6

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

tags: dieting, diets, eating, food, joy-of-life, steak

848 likes

#7

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child

tags: attributed-no-source, cholesterol, food

341 likes

#8

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”
― Julia Child

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#9

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
― Julia Child

tags: bread, food, usa

220 likes

#10

“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

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#11

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any -”
― Alice Waters

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#12

“Life itself is the proper binge.”
― Julia Child

tags: food, life

170 likes

#13

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing

1401 likes

#14

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

3088 likes

#15

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

2446 likes

#16

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

tags: horticulture, puns

817 likes

#17

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

1061 likes

#18

“Sometimes, the best results come from the worst ideas. - Ezra”
― Scarlett Dawn, King Hall

36 likes

#19

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

22287 likes

#20

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

11833 likes

#21

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

1765 likes

#22

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine

1078 likes

#23

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13157 likes

#24

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7426 likes

#25

“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

283 likes

#26

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you do something embarrassing like fall down the stairs in front of a group of people, you are required to act like you are fine, even if you aren't. Your arm could have a bone jutting out, and you would still try to laugh it off as if everything were hunky dory. This compound fracture? It's nothing! I like to let my bones out of my body once in a while for fresh air. It's good for them.”
― Eileen Cook, The Education of Hailey Kendrick

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#27

“She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.”
― Ed Lynskey, Fur the Win

tags: cozies, cozy, cozy-mysteries, cozy-mystery, humor, mysteries-cozy, romance, whodunit, women-sleuths

272 likes

#28

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

3935 likes

#29

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5015 likes

#30

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

3243 likes

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