Confectioner Quotes

#1. [T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.

Ioanna Karystiani

#2. And yet now that we were seventeen the substance of time itself no longer seemed fluid but had assumed a gluelike consistency and churned around us like a yellow cream in a confectioner's machine.

Elena Ferrante

#3. By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar ... there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.

Elizabeth Enright

#4. A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Anton Chekhov

#5. Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

Paulo Coelho

#6. I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Dustin Pedroia

#7. The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#8. Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

James Fenton

#9. The first is last, and the last is first.

Joanna Southcott

#10. My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'

Kenneth Branagh

#11. I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

Adam Ant

#12. Everything about a person may not be perfect, but there are somethings in every person that deserve our respect.

Debasish Mridha

#13. He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

Stephen King

#14. 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

Anonymous

#15. I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. 'Oh, I'm trying to choose my next project.' This is a job. Sometimes your next job is so you can provide for your family; your kids are 16 and getting ready to go to college.

Michael Cudlitz

#16. The women are young, young, young, liquidy and sweet-looking; they are batter, and I am the sponge cake they don't know they'll become. I stand here, a lone loaf, stuck to the pan.

Melissa Bank