Pot Quotes - Page 28

• If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Blood, Like You, Force

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• If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

  Miles Franklin

  Couple, Sadness, Piano

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press

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• As the yeere is, your pot must seeth.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Education, College

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• I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

  Stephanie Szostak

  New York, Cities, Melting

  "My New York: Stephanie Szostak". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. April 6, 2013.

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• To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Ideas, Space

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.
  [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce
  D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle
  D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Knowledge, Mittens, Slippers

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• I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

  Athenaeus

  Storm, Heard, Greater

  "Atheneaus, 'Deipnosophistæ', VIII, 19". Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922), Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Ideas, United States, Boiling Over

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• There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Melting Pot, Precious Metal, Compounds

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Goes On, World, Ends

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.167, Faber & Faber

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• Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Wish, Brushes

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3664, Delphi Classics

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• Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Juice, Myth, Folklore

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• Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Gold, Estates

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• I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.

  Ezra Miller

  Appreciation, Needs, Substance

  "We Need to Talk About Ezra". Interview with Jada Yuan, nymag.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Mean, Differences

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• Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Parent, Notable

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• We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Couple, Drinking

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I'm exaggerating, it wouldn't go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Hands, Pie

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• From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Eye, Winter, Garden

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• My father – who I know is up there right now, with a big pot of gumbo, he’s got a lemon meringue pie, he’s probably in his underwear, and he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite – and he’s dancing.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Father, Pie, Dancing

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.

  Ian Fleming

  Home, Men, Gossip

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel”, Penguin Group USA

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• The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

  Rose Byrne

  Beach, Believe, Artist

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• Chicken pot pie--those are my three favorite things.

  Pablo Francisco

  Pie, Three, Favorites Things

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