Electric Stove Quotes

#1. And a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. There were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.

Lawrence Millman

#3. A hero isn't a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.

Carlo Arellano

#4. You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Nigel Kneale

#5. Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

Karl Kraus

#6. That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life. I'm happy in retrospect.

Maria Semple