Potatoes Quotes

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Marriage, Ideas

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

  Opal Whiteley

  Eye, Thinking, Interesting

  Opal Whiteley (2010). “Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, p.31, Crown

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• Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Yesterday, Brain, Today

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• What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  A. A. Milne

  Beauty, Food, Home Cooking

  "Not That It Matters".

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• The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Curiosity, Natural, Plans

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

  Laurie Colwin

  Believe, Vegetables, Beats

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• I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.

  Bill Murray

  Eye, Legs, Quitting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Food, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

  Linda Wells

  Fashion, Food, Shoes

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• Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

  Thornton Wilder

  Moon, Weather, Looks

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• Forget grammar and think about potatoes

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Forget, Grammar

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

  Charles Dickens

  Papa, Literature, Poultry

  Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

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• Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Money, Roots, Evil

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

  Mos Def

  Sex, Dirty, Rap

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• Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

  Augustus Hare

  Irishmen

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• Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

  Diane Duane

  Book, Reading, Potato Chips

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

  Francis Bacon

  Ancestor, Valuable

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• A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Couple, Home, Tomatoes

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• The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
  is like the potato. The best part is underground.

  Thomas Overbury

  Food, Men, Ancestry

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• Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

  Frank McCourt

  Enough, Mashed Potatoes

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

  Marion Nestle

  Vegetables, May, Potato Chips

  Marion Nestle (2010). “What to Eat”, p.63, Macmillan

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• A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Strong, Communication, Vegetables

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• It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

  Laurie Colwin

  Wise, Food, Two

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• There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

  Henry Ford

  Yield, Vegetables, Years

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