The best Quotes by Edna Ferber

The best Quotes by Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11
5
There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.
Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man
2
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
2
Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3
2
I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
1
In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5
1
We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.
Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC
Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!
I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!
Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1
I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.
Stanley James in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1
Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.
It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
Emperor of China in Mulan
11
What if you slept ? And what if in your sleep you dreamed? And what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if when you awoke you had that flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
4
For women are as Roses, whose fairr flowre,
Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre.
3
She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.
42
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.
20
Come in close, because the more you think you see, the easier it'll be to fool you.
Thaddeus Bradley in Now You See Me
19
The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
20
To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
1
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
23
A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
8
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
6
What do you mean, "he don't eat no meat"? That's okay. I'll make lamb.
I'd love to be a wasp. First, I'm gonna ruin someone's BBQ and then I'll drown myself in their beer.
Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.
Don't ever let a recipe tell you how much garlic to put in. You measure that with your heart.
1
Do I look like someone who cooks? I can open a can of Coke Light, that's it.
1
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
1
Meat without wine is also a sin.
Larys Strong in House Of The Dragon - Season 1 Episode 6
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
6
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
4
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
3
Christmas - The time of love and consciousness, until someone came up with the whole presents-thing.
If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.
Donald Tusk (about German soldiers helping with floodings in Poland) - September 2024
I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.
Taylor Swift - September 2024

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