Irma Quotes

#1. Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens. - Author: Robert Griffin III

#2. The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm! - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#3. A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them. - Irma Pince, Hogwarts Librarian - Author: Rowling J K

#4. Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way. Or they'll come back with paint instead, or beer, or some new idea for a circus or something. They're social anarchists. - Author: Miriam Toews

#5. Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts. - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#6. Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg. - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#7. For a few seconds I thought about my little brothers who loved connecting things with rope. I wondered if I'd ever see them again and a torpedo of sadness struck me and moved straight trough my body. - Author: Miriam Toews

#8. Never send a boy to do a woman's job, Irma. - Payton Kendall - Author: Julie James

#9. The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay! - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#10. Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus. - Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once. - Author: Irma Joubert

#12. Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place - Author: Tullian Tchividjian

#13. In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read. - Author: Lori Lansens

#14. Like every other Christmas Eve, she went to Grandpa John's room, because they were the only ones who knew how long the yearning for another person could last, long after everyone else had forgotten. - Author: Irma Joubert

#15. Extras, in case you want to send some." "Irma," M.J. said. "Who am I going to write a postcard to? You're the - Author: Stephanie Kallos

#16. There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain. - Author: Moby

#17. Eternity is a ham and two people" (also given as "Eternity is two people and a ham") is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge - far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking. - Author: Dorothy Parker

#18. May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours. - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#19. I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are. - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#20. My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain. - Author: Miriam Toews

#21. I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority ... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down! - Author: John Aspinall

#22. Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor. - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#23. A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime. - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#24. We are who we choose to be, so we cannot change our past nor predict our future, but we can live each day to the fullest by sharing love and laughter with friends and associates. - Author: Irma Schettini Caiazzo

#25. 'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. - Author: Miriam Toews

#26. Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health. - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#27. It is not. Mom loves me, and she would not leave me without any explanation.
And then her father began to cry. - Author: Sharon Creech

#28. There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life. - Author: Alvin Lee

#29. Heaven is a beautiful place to be, full of beautiful people having a beautiful time! - Author: David Berg

#30. Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook! - Author: Irma S. Rombauer

#31. War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks. - Author: Irma Joubert

#32. The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. - Author: Ted Turner

#33. I touch the future. I teach. - Author: Christa McAuliffe

#34. I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good. - Author: Shirley Maclaine

#35. To suffer personally and directly due to the collective is not necessary, and is also a subtle form of masochism disguised as virtue. - Author: Irma Kaye Sawyer