Laura Esquivel Quotes

Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

Laura Esquivel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: September 30, 1950

Topics

CookingProgressValuesLoseReward

My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.

Melissa Mathison

GoodRealityYouReactFantasyWay

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.

Stanley B. Prusiner

EducationResearchWritingProcess

Lisbeth Salander is one of the most compelling heroines of 21st century crime literature, and I am thrilled to see readers have welcomed her return.

Sonny Mehta

I AmLiteratureCrimeSeeReturn

For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a lot of people who were multicultural like my family. It was a place where the blonde and brunette girls in school were considered gorgeous. And because of that, I remember feeling like I wasn't good enough.

Sonoya Mizuno

FamilyGoodChildhoodSchoolPeople

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

Sloan Wilson

DeathPeopleAmericanWantGroup

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

Liya Kebede

GoodCareYouFallPlaceSkin

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

Chico Marx

GoodWithoutBeefMustardRoast

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

Chris Cornell

LosingHealingPeopleBelieveYou

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Cheryl Strayed

WorkHard WorkWritingHardError

Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.

Chris Milk

BrainYouSoundHeadEarsExtra

It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

Bruce Forsyth

BusinessSadMeChanceFriendsYou

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

Aretha Franklin

SingingBlackWhiteLittleSawWere

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