H. A. L. Fisher Quotes

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.

Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life

I always say that if she treats her kids half as good as she treats the dogs, they'll be in great shape.

It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.

When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

Natural selection is not evolution.

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.

I’ve been all three. And now I’m undecided.

You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch

Training is the key to keep people from getting hurt.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

We are lied to by our love songs.

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.

I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in that other people wouldn't want to see.

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.