Peanuts Quotes - Page 9

• Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Thinking, Trying, Different

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• While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.

  Christie Rampone

  Snacks, Nuts, Cereal

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• I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

  Christina Perri

  Morning, Ice Cream, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.139, Ballantine Books

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• It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Voice, People

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Peanut Butter, Jelly, Sandwiches

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• I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Regret, Peanut Butter, Jelly

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• You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head goes with her. If Doug is in the house, he must have gone through some opening unless he was born there and never left. If Sheila is alive at 9 A.M. and is alive at 5 P.M., she was also alive at noon. Zebras in the wild never wear underwear. Opening a jar of a new brand of peanut butter will not vaporize the house. People never shove meat thermometers in their ears. A gerbil is smaller than Mt. Kilimanjaro.

  Steven Pinker

  Dog, Zebras, People

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• Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Peanut Butter, Christianity, Invention

  "New again: Diana Vreeland" by Jonathan Lieberson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

  Frank Zappa

  Mentality

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• Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.

  Sandra Newman

  Giving, People, Taste

  Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage

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• If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.

  Unknown

  Wind, Monkeys, Pay

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• Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.

  Joely Fisher

  Kids, Peanut Butter, Today

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

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• Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside.

  Janet Evanovich

  Corn, Junk, Nutrition

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like my parents are totally overreacting - they caught me eating a tiny little bag of airline peanuts and they kicked me out of his funeral.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

  Cassandra Clare

  Tomatoes, Soup, Olives

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

  Jesse McCartney

  Swimming, Peanut Butter, Pool

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Flower, Love You

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• Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Greatest Treasure, Tennis

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• This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

  John Ratzenberger

  Father, Hippie, Party

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• When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

  Pharrell Williams

  Order, Peanut Butter, Room Service

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

  George Washington Carver

  God, Destiny, Size

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• You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Dog, Peanut Butter, Likes

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.65, Candlewick Press

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• When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Thinking, Nuts

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