Pie Quotes

• We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

  David Mamet

  Stress, Food, Cooking

  David Mamet (2010). “Boston Marriage”, p.34, Knopf Group E-Books

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• The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

  Frank Gehry

  Interaction, Whole, Greater

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

  Dave Thomas

  Giving, Chance, Enough

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• You had me at fruit pies

  Bobby Hill

  Fruit

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• Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.303, Oxford University Press

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• So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Cutting, Silver

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.438, Anchor

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• Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

  Irving Berlin

  Coffee, Food, Gold

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• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Broken Heart, Food, Broken Promises

  1738 Polite Conversation.

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• Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Cake

  "Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

  Tom Robbins

  Falling In Love, Love Life, Ideas

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• You like pie? I like pie.

  Barack Obama

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• If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.

  Jay Leno

  Life, Thinking, People

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• So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

  Martha Stewart

  Inspirational, Cutting, Perfect

  Martha Stewart (2006). “The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business”, p.97, Rodale

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• I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

  Nora Ephron

  Fun, Want, Loving Person

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• Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Feminism, Baking

  "Wrong woman, wrong message" by Gloria Steinem, articles.latimes.com. September 4, 2008.

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  Maya Angelou

  Trying, Why Not, Dozen

  "No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Humility, Buddhism

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• What is a roofless cathedral
  to a well-built pie?

  William Maginn

  Cathedrals, Wells, Built

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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, Tables, Limes

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• I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

  Paula Deen

  Want, Good Food, Holes

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• If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

  Marisa Miller

  Yummy, Scratches, Rich

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• Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.

  David Letterman

  Moments, Admire, Rotating

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• When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

  Lisa Loeb

  Birthday, Cake, Age

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