Chopsticks Quotes

• Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Spring, Hands

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• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

  Spike Milligan

  Food, Cooking, Chinese

  Spike Milligan (2011). “Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts”, p.198, Penguin UK

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• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Thinking, Knitting Needles

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

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• I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

  George Clooney

  Girl, Dream, Nice

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• Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Sex, Men, Asking

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• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

  L. M. Boyd

  Knives, Chinese, Firsts

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• When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

  Otis Blackwell

  Song, Writing, Piano

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• A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.

  Ruth Reichl

  Years, Knives, Kitchen

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• My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

  Anchee Min

  Parent, Pairs, Harmony

  1993 Red Azalea.

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• You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

  Jason Varitek

  Trying, Knuckleballs, Catching

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• Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting a shrimp wonton between his chopsticks. "It falls on the ninth full moon if each year." "Ah, how lovely for you to base your holidays on the cycles of my planet." Kai wanted to scoff at the word planet but sucked it back down his throat.

  Marissa Meyer

  Fall, Holiday, Moon

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• Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

  Barbara Johnson

  Attitude, Keys, Play

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.79, Zondervan

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• Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.

  Seungri

  Japan, Tables, Boxes

  Source: fyeahseungri.com

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• I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Use, Littles, Able

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.

  Phillip Adams

  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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• Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

  Bobby Murcer

  Trying, Pieces, Jello

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• I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.

  Li Bingbing

  Years, Environmental, Events

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Mother, Knives, Special

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• Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that they are in every other way identical to other prostitutes. They’re not better looking; they’re not smarter; they’re not classier; they’re not more charming. They probably give more blowjobs than any reasonable woman, right? And they are empty inside, but it’s also society’s fault.

  Julie Klausner

  Agency, Giving, Sushi

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• All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

  Sam Haskins

  Simple, Piano, Cameras

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