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Lifestyle Quotes
"It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time."
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"Add value too your time, chill out with good people."
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"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty."
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"Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"
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"Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself."
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"They say the best things in life are free, and they are if you can afford them."
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"Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold."
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"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running-that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all."
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"Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice."
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"Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself."
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"Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time."
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"As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving."
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"Living simply makes loving simple."
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"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
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"She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband."
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"I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist."
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"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed."
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"He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy."
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"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
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"On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead."
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"You know it's the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper."
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"The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced."
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"Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting."
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"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it."
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"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
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"Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight."
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"I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry."
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"I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations."
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"Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks.There's a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers.There's a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart.There is mystery unfolding."
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"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
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"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine."
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"Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?"
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"So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another."
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"But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing."
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"I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar - much more than you would ever use at home."
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"Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved."
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