Adventures in housewifery: Cooking, crafting, and not a lot of cleaning
“Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“Respect is earned, not bestowed.” — Deanna Troi
“Leave bigotry in your quarters; there’s no room for it on the bridge.” — Captain Kirk
“You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. And it’s flaw.” — Captain Cathryn Janeway
“Then die in ignorance. I can waste no more time on you.”- Worf
“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
— Terry Pratchett (I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4))
“For many years, I’ve wanted to do one, and I’ve always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, ‘Oh well. Christmas albums don’t sell,’ and things like that. But that’s not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.”- Aretha Franklin
“On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o’clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It’s always cold.”- Tove Jansson
“Christmas and a cappella – what we learned really, really well is that they go extremely well together.”- Kevin Olusola (Pentatonix)
“The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it’s a very family-centered holiday.”- Marcus Samuelsson
“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”- Johnny Carson
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”-
Charles M. Schulz
“Chocolate is one of those flavors that’s very likeable, very loveable, very versatile.”-Adriano Zumbo
“I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the days that I’m not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.”-
Trisha Yearwood
“If it’s not messy and it doesn’t drip over the sides, it’s not a holiday hot chocolate -it’s just an average hot chocolate.”- Alex Guarnaschelli
“As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.”- Sarah MacLean
“There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.”-Leo Sayer
“The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper seasons.”-Jane Fallon
“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”-Elizabeth Gilbert
“Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.”-Susan Orlean
“You’re creating ‘ it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You’re not manufacturing somebody else’s plan, somebody else’s blueprint, somebody else’s idea that’s not yours. So when you’re creating, that’s the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.”-Alice Coltrane
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”-Andy Warhol
“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that’s how I felt about drawing.”― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl
“When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.”― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crak
“In science, if you don’t do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn’t compose the ‘Ninth Symphony,’ no one else before or after is going to compose the ‘Ninth Symphony’ that he composed; no one else is going to paint ‘Starry Night’ by van Gogh.”-Neil deGrasse Tyson
“That’s creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”
― Zoe Whittall, Holding Still For As Long As Possible
“I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.”
― Leonard Bernstein
“The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition
“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
― Miles Davis
“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words
“Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”-James Herriot
“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”- Betty White
“You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place. That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.”― Bill Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes “Boink”
“Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.”- Mary Oliver
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”-Francis Of Assisi
“Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.”-Jack Hanna
“Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”-Lloyd Alexander
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable,” she pleaded. “Something beautiful and full of monsters.” “Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It’s really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.”-Lindsey Stirling
“If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth