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Lifestyle Quotes
"It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?"
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"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."
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"Beware the hobby that eats."
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"It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things."
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"He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder."
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"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
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"Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume!"
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"The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters."
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"My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on."
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"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
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"Routines and daily habits aren't restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity."
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"She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds."
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"Who's to say what a 'literary life' is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don't need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!"
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"Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well."
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"Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes."
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"Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!"
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"That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating."
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"Playing a fool is the best paid role."
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"My selfie my life!"
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"A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world."
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"Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!"
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"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."
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"Lots of ways to have your steak "Well done, medium rare, rare, bloody or fetch me a club"."
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"There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness."
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"When I got home, a spicy scent lured me into the kitchen. My stomach grumbled and I might've started drooling the moment I spotted the cheesy enchiladas cooling on the counter.They were drenched in homemade queso.My favorite.Dropping my bag on the floor, I skipped over to where Rosa was placing the plates on the table. I wrapped my arms around her from behind and squeezed.Rosa laughed as she turned. "It's the queso, isn't it?Nodding, I dropped my arms and stepped back."
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"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."
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"I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose."
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"I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that'spractically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, ofcourse."
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"Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet."
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"I don't know any writers who don't drink."
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"Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ... Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather. It makes no difference whether it is built of turf or variegated marble imported from another country: what you have to understand is that thatch makes a person just as good a roof as gold."
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"She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there."
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"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."
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