M.F.K. Fisher Quotes

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Salad is roughage and a French idea.

Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

I did Google myself recentle - without lubricant. I don't recommend it.

When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.

There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

When shall we live if not now?

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.