Salt Quotes - Page 16

• I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Taken, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from May 22, 2012

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• No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Running, Book, Writing

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• Everything on our dinner table-the meat, cheese, salad, bread, and soft drink-requires carbon dioxide to be there. For those of you who believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, we have a special diet: water and salt!

  Joanne Nova

  Believe, Water, Special

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• Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

  Alexander Chee

  Book, Reading, Memorable

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• I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Mind, Trying, Sugar

  "The New Moon's Arms". Book by Nalo Hopkinson, 2007.

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• To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

  George Iles

  Rain, Science, Sea

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ocean, Teaching, Inspiration

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• If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taste, Discworld, Ifs

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.31, Random House

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• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Art, Past, Color

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• Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.

  Russ Shafer-Landau

  Thinking, Views, Order

  Russ Shafer-Landau (2003). “Moral Realism: A Defence”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Wine, Kissing, Play

  Eugene O'Neill, Donald Clifford Gallup (1980). “Poems, 1912-1944”, Ticknor & Fields, 1980

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• They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Giving, Hints

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• The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Men, Sweat

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• Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

  R. K. Milholland

  Winning, Glasses, Race

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• It is what we imagine knowledge to be:
  dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
  drawn from the cold hard mouth
  of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
  forever, flowing and drawn, and since
  our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Moving, Knowledge, Dark

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.64, Macmillan

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• The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.

  Marilu Henner

  Buttons, Tape, Plums

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• My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Friday, Uncles

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• Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

  Richard Jackson

  Thinking, People, Aging

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• I had drawn away into the salt,
  myself, a shell
  emptied of life.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Solitude, Shells, Introspection

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• In my garden
  the winds have beaten
  the ripe lilies;
  in my garden, the salt
  has wilted the first flakes
  of young narcissus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Loss, Garden, Wind

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

  Reading, Book, Literature

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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Couple, Pain

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• Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Corruption, Contradiction

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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• Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Memories, Writing, Ordinary

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