Stew Quotes

• I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

  Liam Neeson

  Onions, Dinner, Odd

  "Liam Neeson's 'wolf stew' claims land The Grey in hot water with Peta" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Life Is Like

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

  Dodie Smith

  Rainy Day, Comforting, Rainy

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.276, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

  Annie Besant

  Competition, Onions, Mixtures

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Worry

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  John Barrymore

  Good Morning, Food, Giving

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• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Political, Scum

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• I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

  Philip Glass

  Travel, Mean, America

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• Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

  Rachael Ray

  Soup, Bucks, Pot

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• There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

  Roald Dahl

  Weather, Apples, Pie

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.42, Penguin

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• Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautes it. There's, um, shrimp ka-bobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.

  Mykelti Williamson

  Sea, Bob, Salad

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• Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Hands, Water

  "Fictional character:". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Misunderstood, East, Orientalism

  "The Ballad of East and West" st. 1 (1892)

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• Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Art

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

  Casey Affleck

  Hate, Character, Thinking

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

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• When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

  Andrea Mitchell

  War, Fire, Rights

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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• That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin

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• Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

  Marian Burros

  Children, Hate, Fishing

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• Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Pain, Past

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

  Neil Gaiman

  Tired, Thinking, Zest

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• When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

  Allison Pearson

  Children, Kids, Giving

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• Go and do, don't sit and stew.

  John Bytheway

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• A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

  Rachilde

  Lust, Lasts, Peppers

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• I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Thinking, Hands

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.

  Fabian

  Heart, Animal, Jumping

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