Olives Quotes

• I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, Simple, Oil

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• You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Should Have, Oil, Cooking

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• Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry.

  Johnny Carson

  Two, Hungry, Martini

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• The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

  Thucydides

  Wine, Vines, Barbarism

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• The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Hero, Wine, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (1978). “Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra”, Viking Pr

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• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  George Ellwanger

  Wine, Men, Oil

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• Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

  Colin Tudge

  Plato, Thinking, Tree

  "Why woodlands are wonderful" by Colin Tudge, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

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• I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

  Nicole Richie

  Pale Skin, Skins, Looks

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• I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Dog, Children, Cat

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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Islamic, Gun

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

  Boris Johnson

  Pms, Olive Trees, Mars

  2004 In the Observer, 20 Jun.

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Oil

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• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

  John Milton

  Summer, Retirement, Plato

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Rain, Two, Vines

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• I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Orange, Hands, Vegetables

  "Releasing My Inner Emeril: Lagasse Grilled" by Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Party, Drinking, Beer

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

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• They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Literature, Architecture

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Rick Perry is qualified to be President in the same way that Olive Garden is qualified to be Italy.

  Andy Borowitz

  Garden, President, Way

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Sep 15, 2011

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Flower, Hero, Sunset

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Winter, Oil, Juice

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for purple-sprouting broccoli with olive oil mash, plus scallops and jerusalem artichokes with celery and lemon" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Hands, Branches

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  Daniel Boone

  Spring, Blessing, Hands

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

  Dean Karnazes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Corn Syrup

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  Rachael Ray

  Girl, Oil, Cooking

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