Doughnut Quotes

• Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

  Haruki Murakami

  Space, Doe, Taste

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 09, 2014

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• There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.

  Roseanne Barr

  Earth, Problem

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• New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

  David Lynch

  New Day, Mystery

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• Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

  Branch Rickey

  Looks, Holes, Whole

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• It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Positive, Attitude

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• I'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Mother, Sex, Father

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.682, Macmillan

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• An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

  George Jean Nathan

  Actors, Literature, Holes

  George Jean Nathan (1970). “Encyclopedia of the Theatre”, Associated University Press

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• As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Food, Eye, Loss

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• I don't need a receipt for a doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction! We don't need to bring ink and paper into this! I can't imagine a scenario where I'd have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend...'Don't even act like I didn't buy that doughnut! I've got the documentation right here! Oh, wait, it's back home, in the file. Under d...for doughnut.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.

  Rick Riordan

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

  Roseanne Barr

  Men, Guy, Good Man

  "Roseanne". Comedy, 2018.

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• You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

  Dean Norris

  Coffee, Looks, Guarantees

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• A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Beer

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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Hurt, People

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• I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

  Janet Evanovich

  Church, Decided

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.164, Macmillan

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• I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

  Gene Simmons

  Long, Meals, Jelly

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 23, 2016

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• I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.

  J. B. Smoove

  Krispy Kreme, Two, Red

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• Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!

  David Lee Roth

  Giving, Bottles, Give Me

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

  Ben Bernanke

  Coffee, Responsibility, Years

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• She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

  Francine Pascal

  Pride, Eating, Enough

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts.

  Kathy Griffin

  Funny, Witty, Up Early

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• British scientists say they have developed a super broccoli that can help fight heart disease. You know, if you want to fight heart disease, why don't you come up with a food people will actually eat? Like a super glazed doughnut.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Fighting, People

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