"Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie."

-- Craig Claiborne

#Food Quotes #Heart Quotes #Pie Quotes

“I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.”
“We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.”

Source : Victory speech after winning the NDP leadership on the first ballot, January 26, 2003.
“When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.”
“Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.”
“You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.”
“I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.”
“Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.”
“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.”

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