Stewpot Quotes

#1. Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Cynthia Ozick

#2. I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was
what's the word these days?
atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay mix.

Salman Rushdie

#3. What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

Jim Thompson

#4. If you can look up, you can get up.

Eric Thomas

#5. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

William Shakespeare

#6. I'm as hungry as ever.

Kevin Pietersen

#7. The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

Joel Greenblatt

#8. Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

John Barrasso

#9. If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

Eliphas Levi

#10. Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh heartily.

Kathleen R Fischer

#11. I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

Daniel Radcliffe

#12. Never waste a good crisis.

Hillary Clinton

#13. The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

Stewart Brand

#14. A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. Denial and the desire to self-destruct are elemental cousins; mining one yields the other in equal proportion.

Domenica Ruta