Mary Berry Quotes

Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuriating at times when they're little, but on the whole, they're such a joy. I don't think I was the most brilliant mother when they were young. I had quite a bit of help because I was working and I enjoyed my work.

Mary Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 24, 1935

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I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

Robert Harris

PeopleThinkYouFindManagerWrite

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Tom Wilson

HappinessEnjoyYouDependMuchHow

Women love an honest man.

Rita Ora

LoveWomenManHonestHonest Man

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Robin Tunney

YouActingTwoPitchingThings

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

Mick Fleetwood

HatYouDownMatterFirstAlways

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Mo Ibrahim

PracticeSameTheoryLawsMust

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

Jonathan Galassi

HeartTimeLongYouLookLong Time

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Donald Kagan

HistoryStoryWayExplainOwnHad

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

MistakeNeverSoundDiscretionMuch

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

Bootsy Collins

DayRoadThinkDoingYouBack

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Audre Lorde

LifeShortDoneNowMustVery

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William Whewell

GreatWillAlwaysLineForceFine

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