Amanda Hesser quotes

Amanda Hesser quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchenâ€”the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.”
-- Amanda Hesser

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“We don't consider a trip to Boston complete if it doesn't include a visit to Flour Bakery for a BLT and a couple of cookies. With Flour, Too we can live vicariously and be there whenever we want.”
-- Amanda Hesser

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“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”
“Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better”
“Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchenâ€”the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.”
“You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.”
“We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.”

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! " with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.
“I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.”
“I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.”
“I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.96, Canongate Books
“The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.”

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