Pie Quotes - Page 9

• If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream -- all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Oil, Ice Cream

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

  Paul Ryan

  Determination, Believe, Self

  "Conservative 'Young Guns' Offer Views on America's Future". A Roundtable Discussion, www.today.com. September 14, 2010.

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• The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Growth, Politics

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• I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

  "After the Great Recession". Interview with David Leonhardt, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

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• It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

  Ada Leverson

  Children, Giving, Perfection

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• By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.

  Robert Adam

  Dog, Oil, Rivers

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• Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Porridge, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

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• A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Coffee, Food, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”

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• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Motherhood

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Motherhood, Apples

  "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

  Stephen King

  Kissing, Cheese

  "Firestarter". Book by Stephen King, 1980.

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• [On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Humble, Littles, Influence

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• Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

  Peg Bracken

  Smell, Kitchen, Sound

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Boston, Pumpkin, Hotel

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1”, p.36

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• If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza. I love a slice when I'm in NYC, but it's like eating a Slim Jim compared with a filet mignon. One slice of Gino's East stuffed sausage pizza is a bigger meal than an entire New York pie.

  Nick Offerman

  New York, Nyc, Style

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• Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is 'shrinking the American pie.' And believe me, if there's one thing Christie hates, it's a small pie.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Believe, President

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• If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Half, Size, Inches

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2012

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• The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

  Eugene Field

  Apples, Apple Pie, Cheese

  Eugene Field, “Apple-Pie And Cheese”

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• This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.

  Ray Nagin

  Eye, Economic, Ready

  "Runoff: New Orleans Mayor". The Associated Press, www.wired.com. April 23, 2006.

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

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• I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

  Robert Breault

  Thanksgiving, Knowing, Taste

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• Your love in a cottage is hungry,
  Your vine is a nest for flies-
  Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
  And simplicity talks of pies!
  You lie down to your shady slumber
  And wake with a bug in your ear,
  And your damsel that walks in the morning
  Is shod like a mountaineer.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Life, Morning, Lying

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.257

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• Jumping back into it was easy as apple pie, it was natural. Honestly, I'm not trying to be nostalgic and talk about the old days but I really believe wholeheartedly that the three of us, Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself really learned how to play our instruments together and now that we are playing together again it can't be anything but natural.

  Reed Mullin

  Believe, Jumping, Play

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got...hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I...what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.” “It was a really evil pie,” I said.

  Mira Grant

  Sorry, Should Have, Long

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• I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Crazy, Thinking, Roles

  Source: www.discdish.com

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