Toklas Cookbook Quotes

#1. Haven't you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are - at this instant - poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago?

Dan Simmons

#2. Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.

M.L. Stedman

#3. A totalitarian system leaves behind it a minefield built into both the country's social structure and the individual psychology of its citizens. And mines explode each time the system faces the danger of being dismantled and the country sees the prospect of genuine renewal.

Anatoly Sobchak

#4. Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Martha Graham

#5. I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

Michael Longley

#6. You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.

Wayne Coyne

#7. How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.

Jam Master Jay

#8. sorrow is the mother of a general compassion,

John Steinbeck

#9. The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?

James Patterson

#10. As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Alice B. Toklas

#11. A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

Lauren Oliver

#12. I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

Sondre Lerche

#13. 'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.

Akiva Schaffer

#14. The definition of a person who practices visualization and positive thinking, without taking action: a broke loser.

Robert Rolih