"I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare."

-- Tasha Tudor

#Stupid Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Jam Quotes

“I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.”

Source : Speech given at a 'monster' meeting held at Drogheda, June, 1843.
“Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
“If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'”
“A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.”

Source : Walter Martin, Ravi Zacharias (2003). “The Kingdom of the Cults”, p.555, Baker Books
“You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.”

Source : Shonda Rhimes’s Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.vulture.com. June 9, 2014.
“I've discovered that, in order for life to go on, you have to believe in necessary fantasies such as what you think is going to happen next week will actually happen, the people who are alive right now will be alive next week.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“I think that's the nature of the region, not even simply Eastern Europe but the Balkans. They are their own region. They are a peculiar place. They do share a history that we don't share with a country like Ukraine for example, and that's because of the presence of the Ottomans for hundreds of years.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

Source : Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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