Sugar Quotes - Page 17

• From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Cocoons, Reeds

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• Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

  Amy Gerstler

  Fear, Vegetables, Snakes

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin

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• Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

  Kara Walker

  Ideas, White, Soul

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• I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Dog, Hate

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, A&C Black

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• The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Past, People, Events

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.203, Random House

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• Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
  1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods
  2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain
  3. Avoid salty and sugary foods
  4. Cut down on sugar
  5. Emphasize whole grains
  6. Beware of alcohol
  7. Emphasize the Healthy Five:
  Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds
  Sprouted seeds such as soybeans
  Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ
  Yogurt and kefir
  Fresh fruits and vegetables

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Cutting, Vegetables

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• I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

  George Saunders

  Birthday, Drama, Rain

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Funny, Morning, Cutting

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cups, Ifs

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.55, Penguin

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• Frank stared at her. "But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters." Iris looked horrified. "Oh, they're not Ding Dongs." She rummaged under the counter and brought out a package of chocolate covered cakes that looked exactly like Ding Dongs. "These are gluten-free, no-sugar-added, vitamin-enriched, soy-free, goat-milk-and-seaweed-based cupcake simulations." "All natural!" Fleecy chimed in. "I stand corrected." Frank suddenly felt as queasy as Percy.

  Rick Riordan

  Cupcakes, Chocolate, Vitamins

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• Jack might look my age, but he was like a little kid on a sugar high --- in need of a good spanking. --- Good heavens, that sounded creepy.

  Kiersten White

  Kids, Heaven, Creepy

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• As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does

  Klay Thompson

  Coffee, Chocolate, Black

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• I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

  Nonito Donaire

  Growing Up, Motivation, Rays

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• There are times when you cannot even control the sugar level in your body. Remember that when you put sugar in your metabolism, you are upsetting your metabolism in a very direct way. X amount of sugar is understandable, but the amount of sugar you put in, only God can save you. And whenever you put x amount of sugar, you must follow the law of depression. When you get that kind of depression, you lose a lot of friends. Therefore, it is very fair to channel your energy. One of the best ways to channel the energy is to do the pranayama.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Law, Upset

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• Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.

  Barry Sears

  Zero, Snacks, Water

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• There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Trying, Want

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• First you bring the sugar, then you bring the hot sauce.

  Kevin Ollie

  Hot, Sauce, Firsts

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Wall, Boys

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.

  Theodor Billroth

  Looks, Coats, Failing

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• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Tea, Together, Envelopes

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• Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as
  processed carbs. They’re loaded with sugar and other additives.
  The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive
  we feel. The more dead foods we eat...well, you get the idea.

  Tony Horton

  Vegetables, Ideas, Junk

  Tony Horton (2010). “Bring It!: The Revolutionary Fitness Plan for All Levels That Burns Fat, Builds Muscle, and Shreds Inches”, p.220, Rodale

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• KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

  Suzanne Collins

  Cubes, Calm

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• Shamus ordered half a cup of house brew. Then he proceeded to fill the cup up the rest of the way with milk and sugar. Lots of sugar. “Sure you got enough milk in your sugar?” I asked as we strolled out of the shop and headed south. He flipped me off. “You drink your coffee your way, and I’ll drink my coffee the right way.

  Devon Monk

  Coffee, House, Half

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.219, Penguin

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• Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

  John Burroughs

  Goodbye, Running, Sweet

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press

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• It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

  E. B. White

  Love, Horse, Fighting

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