Spices Quotes - Page 3

• The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Trying, Garlic

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well.

  Chris Kilham

  Powerful, Healing, Medicine

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• An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

  Bette Davis

  Funny Marriage, Add, Affair

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

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• Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Rain, Air, Tuesday

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup - important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can't and shouldn't be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.

  Alyson Noel

  Past, Thinking, Important

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• I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Humans

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women”, p.331, Louisa May Alcott

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• I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

  Paul Lynde

  Interesting, Looks, Goes On

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• Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Sunday, Light, Glowing

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music!

  Jason Graves

  World, Spice Of Life, Variety

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• I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key.

  Todd English

  Keys, Nuts, Oil

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• I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food.

  Alison Sweeney

  Kids, Add, Flavor

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Eye, Men, Looks

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• A little danger adds spice to life.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Add, Littles, Danger

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• She gestured toward his very fine chest with her pencil. “On the off chance I find out after we’re married that your declaration of abiding love and devotion has been an elaborate con job perpetrated by you, Bodie, and Scary Spice…” He massaged her arch. “I definitely wouldn’t lose too much sleep over that.” “Just in case. You will give me all you worldly goods, shave your head, and leave the country.” “Deal.” “Plus, you have to hand out your Sox tickets so I can burn them in front of your eyes.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Country, Jobs, Eye

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• Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friends, Jealousy

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• Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

  Phyllis McGinley

  Life, Compromise, Nations

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

  Wallace Stegner

  Summer, Past, Rose

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.43, Penguin

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• I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads.

  Graham Kerr

  Home, Hands, Vegetables

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• If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Life, Marriage

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

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• Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

  Walter Benjamin

  Girl, Baby, Book

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

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• I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Looks, Remember

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.186, Penguin UK

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• Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Average, People, Middle

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• Flirting with death is the spice of life.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Life, Flirting, Spice Of Life

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.366, Univ of California Press

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• The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

  Jayma Mays

  Kids, Phones, Order

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

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