Pot Quotes - Page 19

• Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Glue, Nails

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• It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
  It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
  It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
  Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

  Louis MacNeice

  Country, Government, Years

  'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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• BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

  Morley Safer

  Safe Haven, Nuts, Land

  1985 In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

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• I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.

  Leah Chase

  People, Cooking, Sandwiches

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• To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

  Timothy Leary

  Mistake, Years, Two

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• In a recent interview, Howard Dean admitted that he used to drink and smoke pot. So, now all he needs to put him over the top is a sex scandal.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Needs, Scandal

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• Laughter not time destroyed my voice
  And put that crack in it,
  And when the moon's pot-bellied
  I get a laughing fit.

  William Butler Yeats

  Laughter, Moon, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Lawyer, Quarrels

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Visitors, Busy

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.

  George Herbert

  Wine, Fishing, Lost

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.

  George Herbert

  Broken, Whole

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

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• Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.

  Simon Hoggart

  Fire, Two, Sweaters

  "Simon Hoggart's week: TV guilt and swanupmanship at Vintners' dinner" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

  Ian Frazier

  Beautiful, Art, American West

  Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan

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• In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

  Toshiko Takaezu

  Vegetables, Differences, Giving

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

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• Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

  David Denby

  Sex, Hate, Past

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• I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

  Alexandra Wentworth

  Children, Blood, Greek

  "Ali Wentworth Talks ‘Ali In Wonderland,’ Life With George Stephanopoulos" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.

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• When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Irritation, Up Early

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• In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.

  Aerin Lauder

  Use, Basics, Term

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• I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.

  Loren Eiseley

  Flower, Thinking, Effort

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• Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Understanding, Crowds, Pints

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• I don't smoke pot or cigarettes, so inhaling smoke as a non-smoker - it doesn't matter what it is, it's going to make you lightheaded.

  Kevin Nealon

  Matter, Cigarette, Smokers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

  Willie Nelson

  Air, Pieces, Flesh

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• It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

  Debbie Macomber

  Miracle, Self Pity, Finished

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• Janie: Did you ever sell drugs? Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh...rather troubled back then. Janie: Why did you stop? Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology.

  Lisa McMann

  Drug, Captains, Janie

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