Potatoes Quotes - Page 6

• I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

  Jean Smart

  Years, Smoking, Together

  "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

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• If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.

  John Assaraf

  Hands, Overcoming, Negative

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jan 28, 2013

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• It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Believe, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.16

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• Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.

  William Gibson

  Running, Baby, Eye

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.32, Penguin

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• Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

  Brigham Young

  Prayer, Milk, Needed

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• Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Taken, Eggs

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• For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Demand, He Man

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• And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.

  Opal Whiteley

  Song, Stars, Thinking

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• I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Father, Punishment, Water

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Vampire, Potato Chips, Victim

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.855, Penguin

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• I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Yugoslavia, Issues

  The Daily of the University of Washington Newspaper, May 5, 1989.

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• Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

  Cat Cora

  Sweet, Meals, Bags

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• Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.

  Cindy Gerard

  Princess, Giving, Kingdoms

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• I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Mean, Cat

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• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Land, Plot

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• With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Winter, Night

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.91, Penguin

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• My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

  David Mixner

  Summer, Garden, Ice Cream

  "Turkey Hollow Almanac: Summer Memories" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2008.

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• I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

  Tyra Banks

  Positive, Food, Junk

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• I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Sweet, Two, Three

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

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• Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

  Jodi Picoult

  Horse, Coffee, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Yellow, Long, Mad

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2000, Delphi Classics

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• Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table. "What's doing with the hair spray? You boys going drag on us?" Butch held up the lenght of PVC pipe he was punching a hole in. "Potato launcher, my man. Big fun." "Excuse me ?" "Didn't you ever go to summer camp ?" "Basket weaving and woodcarving are for humans. No offense, but we have better things to teach our youngs.

  J.R. Ward

  Summer, Fun, Coffee

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Awakened: Number 3 in series”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Meat, Groups

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• I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Baby, Winning, Long

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• It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

  Daniel Handler

  Sweet, Mean, World

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