Alphabet Soup Quotes

• I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Education, Humor, People

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• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  Vanna White

  Soup, Pay, Alphabet

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• Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

  Mary Norris

  Cereal, Soup, Alphabet

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Childhood, Mutiny, Paddling

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.31, Penguin

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• The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, War, Fighting

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• The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Done, Soup

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Bridges, Knowing

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Soup, Alphabet

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• It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Soup, Alphabet

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• Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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