"Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series……" — M.F.K. Fisher
"Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman."
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68 Quotes by M.F.K. Fisher
M.F.K. Fisher has 68 quotes on this site.
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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged…
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or…
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper.…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to,…
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It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to…
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then…
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More Isms Quotes
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one of 60 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides.…
— Ruth Benedict
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me…
— Yogi Berra
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an…
— Arnold Beichman
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Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the…
— Thomas Sowell
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The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism…
— Louis Agassiz
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My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always…
— Kurt Cobain
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All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all…
— Meher Baba
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Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple.
— Naoto Fukasawa
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Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
— Ruby Dee
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If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating…
— Adyashanti
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