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• Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Friendship, Food

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.307

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• It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

  Al Jourgensen

  Second Chance, Kicking, Want

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• I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Nice, Play

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• It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Cooking, Library

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• All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

  David Heyman

  Trying, Film, Audience

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• Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

  Gene Simmons

  Thinking, Growth, Biscuits

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• And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sweaters, Alive, Carolina

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, [skin] happens at the gravy boat stage - right? - or this happens when you're trying to keep it warm. So the way that I avoid this is I keep my gravy - the second it's done, I put it in a thermos, which will keep it hot and will prevent air from getting to the surface. And I keep it there till the last moment. The last thing that goes out to the table is the gravy, and I pour it out of the thermos and immediately move it in.

  Alton Brown

  Moving, Air, Skins

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn't matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.

  Brad Paisley

  Thinking, Dresses, Looks

  Song: That's Love, Album: Mud On The Tires, 2003

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• The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.

  Irving Stone

  Girl, Wall, Light

  Irving Stone (1984). “Lust for Life”, Plume

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• Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.

  Lorrie Moore

  Real, Mistake, Taken

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

  Billy Campbell

  Wells, Written, Well Written

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 31, 2011.

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• You need to either create a slurry in a cold liquid, which also works with cornstarch, or you've got to do your gravy in a very wide pan and kind of scatter the flour over the top and then very quickly whisk it in.

  Alton Brown

  Needs, Liquid, Cold

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.

  Rosita Forbes

  Food, Sheep, Monsters

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

  Dorothy Allison

  Couple, Memories, Water

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• I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

  Davy Jones

  Glasses, Hair, Cold

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• Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Done, Good Work, Doing Good

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

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• Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

  Jo Coudert

  White, People, Cooking

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• A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.

  John C. McGinley

  Men, Ipods, Numbers

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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  Patrick Carney

  Fun, Play, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Virginia, San Francisco

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• England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Food, Swimming, Islands

  Katherine Mansfield (2009). “Stories”, p.33, Vintage

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• Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Christmas, Country, Morning

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