Laurie Colwin Quotes

As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most people are wrong. Mine is the only right way, and on this subject I feel almost evangelical.

Laurie Colwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1944 - October 24, 1992

Topics

BestPeopleThinkFeelWrongWay

I like to dance. I'm not going to say that I'm a good dancer.

Jessie Usher

GoodDanceSayGoingLikeDancer

I grew up feeling 'less than.' I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I'd wait for my grandmother's voice to call, 'Jewell, Jewell.' I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I'd be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

TruthSadChildWaitingWaitBetter

I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around a thousand kids. All smart. We had a strict dress code. If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.

Jeffrey Gitomer

HomeSchoolSmartDressBlueYou

The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.

Michael Baumgartner

CommunitySupportCollegeYearDream

I am fairly obsessive compulsive.

Stephen McFeely

I AmAmCompulsiveFairlyObsessive

People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.

Troy Polamalu

FaithI AmPeopleYouLookCareer

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.

Ronald Coase

PeopleUsedDifferentMineViews

There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.

Chris Squire

JoyPerformanceMusiciansPlaceNew

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Brian Selznick

FriendChildrenBestJobBookMeet

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

Annie Leibovitz

ViewPortraitYouPoint Of ViewRoom

Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.

Pranav Mistry

MoneyMeGoalMy OwnCompanyOwn

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Thomas Huxley

TruthScienceSheHerFunction

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