"Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank."

-- Alan King

#Mother Quotes #Balls Quotes #Fluffy Quotes

“With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects, which confront him in a tactile way with the final and deepest problems of our existence. I want the means that I employ to create the necessary stimulus to be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself.”
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.”
“Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.”
“We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant,”

Source : "Wake Forest University commencement speech". www.theguardian.com. 2014.
“I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."”
“I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.”
“Parents' work has shifted markedly around the world - and that goes for every region. Men in particular have been moving away from farmed-based work, and into industrial and post-industrial work - so they've moved away from the home. Women, likewise, have moved into the paid labor force and away from the home.”

Source : "Forgotten Families". Interview with Juliana Bunim, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2006.

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