Gravy Quotes

• I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Passion

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone”, p.82

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• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

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• A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

  Dolly Parton

  Attitude, Together, Biscuits

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• Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

  Joni Mitchell

  Expression

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• Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Winning, Would Be, Nominations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Dream, Food

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

  Totie Fields

  Happiness, Dresses, Brown

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• Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

  Iris Murdoch

  Lying, People, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

  Charles Dickens

  Scrooge, Beef, May

  A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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• International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

  Erin McCarthy

  Cute, Sides, Want

  Erin McCarthy (2009). “Hard and Fast”, p.100, Penguin

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• When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

  George Bernard Shaw

  Night, Men, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Native American, Funny Thanksgiving, Soy

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• Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Beautiful, Sweet, Couple

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• If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Honey, Train, Ifs

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• God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Writing, Vowels, Pewter

  1955 Poems and Essays,'Survey of Literature'.

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• There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Opportunity, Rare Occasion

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. Seotember 11, 2010.

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• My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.

  Serena Williams

  Mom, Kids, Meals

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Running, Jobs, Dark

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.198, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

  Clive James

  Soup, Stones, Classic

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Mushrooms, Two

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• I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

  Elvis Presley

  Country, Grease, Pork

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• This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

  James Thurber

  Ambition, Feet, Slave

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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