Ali > Ali's Quotes

“First we eat, then we do everything else.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

“Kindness eases change
Love quiets fear”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.”
― John Waters

“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”
― John Waters, Role Models

“I respect everything I make fun of.”
― John Waters

“My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.”
― John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night