Pot Quotes - Page 18

• You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fun, Dirty, Parent

  "Neil Degrasse Tyson Responds To Six-Year-Old – 'How Can First Graders Help The Earth?'". Neil deGrasse Tyson's speech at the NDT lecture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, lybio.net. November 14, 2014.

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I am not angry. I am just disappointed that, once again, a hotel has tried to convince me it will move heaven and earth to ensure I am comfortable when, in reality, it won't even pass me the coffee pot!

  Richard Quest

  Coffee, Moving, Reality

  Richard Quest's blog for CNN, August 29, 2007.

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• I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Husband, Cooking, Hot

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• The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

  Donal Logue

  Lonely, Thinking, Sight

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• Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

  Eddie Vedder

  Order, Dutch, Speak

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• You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.

  Toshiko Takaezu

  Artist, Quality, Pieces

  Toshiko Takaezu, Felice Fischer, Darrel Sewell (2004). “The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu”, ACC Distribution

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• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  Feist

  Broken, People, Healthy

  "Is this it?". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?

  Bill Hicks

  Law, Profit, Grows

  "Chicago '91". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1991.

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• It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

  Horace

  Vases

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• I'll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I've seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I'll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Numbers, Now And Then

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

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• I don't like pot anymore -- I forget why.

  Margaret Cho

  Forget

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• that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

  Gene Tierney

  Character, Pride, Melting

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

  Kevin Sabet

  Hands, Research, Scientist

  "U.S. Anti-Legalization Group Urges More Access To Marijuana Research", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2015.

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• I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

  Marcella Hazan

  Smell, Cooking, Sound

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• I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Kids, Sound, Pots And Pans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

  Greg Gutfeld

  World, Population, Generations

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.

  Michael Pollan

  Children, Thinking, Talking

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• I'm not a marijuana user, so I always feel kind of fraudulent. I applaud this, I do recreational drugs, but marijuana's never one of those. People think because I talk about drugs, that I smoke pot. But I don't.

  Doug Stanhope

  Thinking, Marijuana, People

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• My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

  Jane Kenyon

  Fall, Writing, Poetry

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• I like believing. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than peoples imaginations.

  Megan Fox

  Believe, Lucky Charms, Imagination

  "Megan Fox Saves Herself". Interview with Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. January 15, 2013.

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• The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.

  Trey Parker

  Growing Up, Marijuana, Skills

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• Nobody in America who wants pot has any trouble getting it, so maybe that's why we aren't seeing support for legalization. People don't think it's necessary to legalize it, because it's so easy to get it.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, America, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 13, 2006.

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• There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

  Anna Quindlen

  Education, School, Class

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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