Scones Quotes

• A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day.

  Clinton Kelly

  Next Day, Breakfast, Host

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• I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

  Gene Simmons

  Long, Meals, Jelly

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hockey, Hair, Color

  "Nineteen Minutes". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 6, 2007.

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• Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Angel, Cake, Special

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• Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

  Andrew Rannells

  Moving, Towns, Poor

  "Andrew Rannells ‘Book of Mormon’ Star Talks Life, White Strips & Mucinex". Interview with Sandi Durell, theaterpizzazz.com. July 17, 2013.

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• America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Drinking, Names, America

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• Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

  Andrew Rannells

  Moving, Thinking, Baking

  "Andrew Rannells ‘Book Of Mormon’ Star Talks Life, White Strips & Mucinex". Interview with Sandi Durell, theaterpizzazz.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

  Joshua Ferris

  Life, Dog, Sunset

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• On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

  Haven Kimmel

  Wall, Book, Reading

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.127, Anchor

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• What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Lasts, Said

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.257, Penguin

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• Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon. Gideon threw a scone at him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Eye, Bed

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Home, College, Years

  evelyn waugh (1929). “decline and fall”

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• Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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