Am Quote by Mary McCarthy Download Open image “I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.” — Mary McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Am Cake I am Imaginary Imagination Putting Real
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Life, my brethren, is like plum-cake. In some the plums are all on the top, and we eat them gayly, till we suddenly find… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine. — David Cross Copy Share Image
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion Copy Share Image
I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl. — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
There's certain cakes you've got to have, maybe a pie here and there. But I know to not do it as much. — Biz Markie Copy Share Image
In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.” — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
I think I am against stereotype. Generally, Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I am confident when I take the penalty otherwise I would pass for somebody else. — Bruno Fernandes Copy Share Image
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late. — Jim Diamond Copy Share Image
I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty. — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
I am no different from a lot of people. I am concerned for the future of my children and concerned for the future of… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
