Leftovers Quotes

• Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

  George Carlin

  Intelligent, Hair, Blue

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.393, Hachette UK

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• Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, Heart, Mind

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• It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

  Julian Baggini

  Bothered, Knows

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

  Evan Esar

  Waiting, All Things

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• Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

  Hal Borland

  Moving, Past, Law

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• Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dating, Get Better, Trying

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.482, St. Martin's Press

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• My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

  David Byrne

  Food, Dinner, My Favorite

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• Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Art, Memories, Recycling

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.36, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

  Theodor Adorno

  Memories, Past, Irrational

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• We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, World, Eating

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• My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.

  Big Boi

  Wife, Remix, Cooks

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

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• Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

  Paula Deen

  Brain, Mouths, Tongue

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• The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Firsts, Stolen, Whole

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• Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Culture, Exclusion

  "Pope Francis: Capitalism is 'a new tyranny'" by Katie Mcdonough, www.salon.com. November 26, 2013.

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• One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, White, Black

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

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• But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Wine, Sunday, Night

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• Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

  Nicole Hollander

  Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  Oleg Cassini

  Dog, Hurt, Half

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• Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

  Michelle Obama

  Couple, Night, Lunch

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• I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.

  Tristram Stuart

  Believe, Opportunity, Imagination

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• "Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Mountain, Growing

  Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.972, Best Books on

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• At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  School, Gang, Wanted

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• From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Light

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• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Character, Russia, Government

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 17, 1890.

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