Garlic Quotes - Page 2

• The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

  Jim Harrison

  Wine, Giving, Advice

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• Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

  Jean Rostand

  Men, Hatred, Atheism

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• 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, Spices

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

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• Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Food, Two, Smell

  Evelyn Waugh (1930). “Labels: A Mediterranean Journal”

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• I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.

  Jorge Cruise

  Believe, Vegetables, Magic

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• I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

  Gareth Gates

  Meals, Needs, Pay

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• There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sunshine, Simple, Long

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.206

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• I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Oil, Black, Together

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• As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

  George Orwell

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• You can never have too much, butter.

  Julie Powell

  Beach, Too Much, Flipping A Coin

  "Julie & Julia". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• You can never have too much sky.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beach, Sky, Flipping A Coin

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.50, Vintage

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• He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Food, Cooking, Sandwiches

  Ford Madox Ford (1971). “The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions”

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• I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Cooking, Sodium

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• Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Food, Used, Perfume

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Smell, Onions, Peasants

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1954). “Don Quixote”, London ; Montreal : Penguin Books

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• We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

  Leslie White

  Cooking, Onions, Knows

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• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Winter, Oil, Juice

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for purple-sprouting broccoli with olive oil mash, plus scallops and jerusalem artichokes with celery and lemon" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

  Patience Gray

  Cheer, Food, Vegetables

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• What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Young, Young Women

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1912). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheese, Windmills

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [158]

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• Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!

  Ted Nugent

  Animal, Rights

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• I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.

  Ringo Starr

  Crazy, Moving, Spices

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• The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Air, Vegetables, Aroma

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• If you like garlic, you'll like ramps.

  Jim Chamberlin

  Ramp, Ifs

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• Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

  Patience Gray

  Food, Home, Wine

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