Limes Quotes

• I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Fashion, Black, Green

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• If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Life, Attitude, Giving

  "If Life Gives You Limes, Make Margaritas" by Andrea Chalupa, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid.

  Tom DeLay

  Sprinkles, Littles, Acid

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• Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

  Anne Sexton

  Asparagus, Tongue, Rich

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Take life with a pinch of salt
  A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime
  Do nothing at all
  But take your time

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Salt, Tequila

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• Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness means the inside is dry - and they'll stay softer longer if you don't refrigerate them.

  Bobby Flay

  Mean, Giving, Juice

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• The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

  Isak Dinesen

  Summer, Dream, Morning

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.37, Vintage

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• They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

  Sloane Crosley

  Keys, Pie, Tables

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• If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Lovers, Form

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.190

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• What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Love You, Kissing

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.159

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• Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Next

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• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Together

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.

  Maya Angelou

  Dog, Phones, Ice

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.74, Random House

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• For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Children, Father

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.60, A&C Black

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• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

  Ayn Rand

  Crush, Strong, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Coffee, Eggs, Two

  "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

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• I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.

  Paula Poundstone

  Keys, Pie, Way

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• My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Girl, Heart, Iron

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• For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.

  Martin Bashir

  Sports, Winter, Night

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• What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Sublime, Green

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• By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.

  David F. Houston

  Home, Eggs, Glasses

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• Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Oysters, Water

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Boys, White, Afternoon

  Federico García Lorca, “Lament For Ignacio Sánchez Mejías”

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• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  Maira Kalman

  Desks, Brushes, Pencil Sharpeners

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