#thin

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#people #sync #things #well #won

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#actually #always #clothes #comment #cook

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#always #felt #first #had #i

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#device #i #i think #kind #projecting

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#accounts #actually #computers #email #few

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#einstein #few #knowledge #now #philosophers

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ↗

— Sarah Brown

#hen #only #sat #success #the only thing

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#became #empowering #freedom #girl #having

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#anyone #better #heavy #how #i