Brownies Quotes

• You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Happiness, Giving Up, Would Be

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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good.

  Carrie Jones

  Sweet, Heart, Thinking

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.70, A&C Black

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• There go the goddamn brownies!

  Joe Dante

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• Don't let the brownies bite.

  Brandon Mull

  Bites

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

  Linda Sunshine

  Food, Baking, Impossible

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• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

  David Leavitt

  Smell, Childhood, Perfume

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Stories of David Leavitt”, p.4, A&C Black

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• I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Husband, Love You, Two

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• Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

  Ina Garten

  Trying, Should, Arrested

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

  Marisa Miller

  Yummy, Pie, Scratches

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• What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Wine, Clubs

  Jami Attenberg (2013). “The Middlesteins”, p.103, Profile Books

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• I'm the king of brownie sundaes!

  Matt Dallas

  Kings, Sundaes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mom, Mother, Want

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Blow

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.

  Carol Alt

  Eating, Granola, I Can

  "Transcript: Carol Alt Talks About 'Eating in the Raw'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Marijuana brownies are amazing. Very simple to make, too. Just get some Duncan Hines brownie mix and cook the weed right in there. Drop it right in with the butter. I don't know who came up with this idea first, but it's sheer genius.

  George Lopez

  Weed, Marijuana, Simple

  George Lopez, Alan Eisenstock (2013). “I'm Not Gonna Lie: And Other Lies You Tell When You Turn 50”, p.17, Penguin

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• I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

  Parker Posey

  Watches, Veins, Normalcy

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• The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Wife, House

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan. Chapter 1: "The Problem That Has No Name", opening lines, 1963.

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• After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

  Mel Gibson

  Funny, Inspiring, Anniversary

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• Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

  Lorrie Moore

  Coffee, Sadness, Worry

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 15, 2010

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• I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!

  Carrie Underwood

  Smell, Caramel, Bus

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• I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

  Eric Clapton

  Knowing, Culture, Berries

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• While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Men, Rivers

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• I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.

  Kathy Griffin

  Soccer, Cheerleading, Team

  Kathy Griffin (2009). “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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