My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.
The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.
Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!
There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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