"As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing."

-- Alice B. Toklas

#Writing Quotes #Cookbook Quotes

“My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many.”
“Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.”
“Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole ***** and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.”
“Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.”
“Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 03, 2014
“Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“After five months I swore Iâ€™d never get pregnant again. I got so huge and it felt like someone had taken over my body.”
“I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Raven-Symoné Gets Into the Sister Act". Interview with Iris Wiener, www.theatermania.com. Aprшд 9, 2012.

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