Irma's Quotes

#1. 'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

Miriam Toews

#2. 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.

Dorothy Parker

#3. May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

Irma S. Rombauer

#4. I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.

Irma S. Rombauer

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

Miriam Toews

#6. 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.

Irma S. Rombauer

#7. A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

Irma S. Rombauer

#8. 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.

Irma Schettini Caiazzo

#9. If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

Martin Parr

#10. Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Howard G. Hendricks

#11. Failure is not an option.

Teri Terry

#12. Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.

Irma S. Rombauer

#13. 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.

Alvin Lee

#14. Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

Irma S. Rombauer

#15. God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do.

Kristiane Backer

#16. War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.

Irma Joubert

#17. Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Lord Chesterfield

#18. I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

Bill Wyman

#19. 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.

Shirley Maclaine

#20. To suffer personally and directly due to the collective is not necessary, and is also a subtle form of masochism disguised as virtue.

Irma Kaye Sawyer

#21. Never send a boy to do a woman's job, Irma. - Payton Kendall

Julie James

#22. Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual decisions, but habits.prl.3

Charles Duhigg

#23. 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!

Irma S. Rombauer

#24. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

Noah Levine

#25. 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

Rowling J K

#26. You know you're a success when people tell you, "I like me best when I'm with you."

Denis Waitley

#27. 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.

Miriam Toews

#28. Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.

Irma S. Rombauer

#29. Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

Irma S. Rombauer

#30. 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.

Miriam Toews

#31. Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

Tove Jansson

#32. 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!

Irma S. Rombauer

#33. Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Baz Luhrmann

#34. life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once.

Irma Joubert

#35. 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.

Lori Lansens

#36. I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

Idina Menzel

#37. I kiss him back, smiling, because I know hes right. And I know well be together. Forever.

Jessica Sorensen

#38. 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.

Irma Joubert

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

Stephanie Kallos