Caviar Quotes - Page 2

• Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

  Ben E. King

  Sorry, Kids, Feelings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

  Carrie Fisher

  Eggs, Onions, Ugh

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

  Hedrick Smith

  Sarcastic, Mushrooms, Beets

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• Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

  Bill Geist

  Consistency, Chilled

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• It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

  Edna Ferber

  Champagne, Ritual, Hog

  1952 Giant, ch.2.

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• [on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.

  Laurence Olivier

  Actors, Feeding, Should

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

  Larry David

  Perfect, Able, Metaphor

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• Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

  Jonathan Ames

  Mean, Teeth, Firsts

  "Jonathan Ames Gave a Seemingly Drunk, Definitely Insane Speech This Weekend". www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Cake, Comfort, Dinner

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

  Carrie Fisher

  Hate, Ugh, I Hate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

  Carrie Fisher

  Taste

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Meals, Fame, Knows

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• Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.

  Ann Petry

  Men, Vegetables, Clothes

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• I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.

  Alec Monopoly

  Good Life, Taste, Eating

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and my coffeepot. Plus a few other things a girl like me just can’t live without but can’t mention in mixed company because it would be indelicate. You know, because they’re sexual.” - at “lingerie,” Hector and Dallas had stood a little straighter. At “sexual,” they’d moaned. Jaxon punched them both in the back of the head.

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Couple, Book

  Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, Sharie Kohler (2011). “Origins: First Books of Three Paranormal Bestsellers: Cole, Showalter, Kohler: A Hunger Like No Other, Awaken Me Darkly, Marked by Moonlight, with excerpts from their three latest novels!”, p.1416, Simon and Schuster

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• She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Winter, June

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• My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Thinking, Sophisticated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

  Deb Caletti

  Oatmeal, Forget, Odd

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

  William Faulkner

  Elephants, Giving, Pointless

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• I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Trying, Notes

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• If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Potato Chips, Potatoes, Poor

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.

  Ally Carter

  Uncles, Father, Beer

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

  Jonathan Hyde

  Decision, Quality, Acting

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• I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar.

  Donald Sinden

  Sweet, Brother, Salmon

  "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

  Eoin Colfer

  Believe, Kitchen, Term

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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