Beans Quotes - Page 8

• A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Chocolate, Ordinary

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• That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

  Elaine Dundy

  Curiosity, Answers, Want

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.47, New York Review of Books

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• I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said. "That's not even a real thing." "Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Real, Impact

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• Oh yeah? What did you have last night?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. With a pickle." "And the night before?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. No pickle." She giggled. "What was the last hot meal you cooked?" He pretended to rack his brains. "Uh...beans and franks. On Monday.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Monday, Night, Turkeys

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.

  Jon Richardson

  Mean, Perfect, Suffering

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh . . . Steve?

  Ann Coulter

  Friday, New York, Media

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• I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Horse, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspiration, Anxiety, Magic

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• I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

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• Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve rather lost my liking for them — but I think I’ll be safe with a nice toffee, don’t you?” He smiled and popped the golden-brown bean into his mouth. “Alas! Ear wax!

  J. K. Rowling

  Nice, Thinking, Toffee

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• I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra) Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Games, Giving, Needs

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• Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Kissing, Two

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• I like that Zarek. He quality people! He even gave me a can opener so I don’t have to use my fangs. I like that. Metal is hard on the teeth. Pork and beans popsicle. Yummy! My favorite! (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Yummy, People, Quality

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.303, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

  David Levithan

  Reflection, Lakes, Swings

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.93, Penguin

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• A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

  Roald Dahl

  Giants, Ears, Littles

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.63, Penguin

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• It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.

  Muriel Barbery

  Soul, Insecurity, Would Be

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

  Christopher Moore

  Mom, Together, Would Be

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• It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

  Deb Caletti

  Men, Guy, Cooking

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Queen of Everything”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

  Tom Waits

  Fun, Oil, Bells

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• I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, Toasters, Tin

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• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  Gail Simmons

  Mother, Vegetables, Law

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• My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Heart, Littles

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• For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!

  Bill Watterson

  Country, Who I Am, People

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• The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Adventure, Differences, Cows

  "Fictional character: Jack". "Into the Woods". Musical by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim, 1986.

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