Potatoes Quotes - Page 7

• Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

  Beatrix Potter

  Lost Ones, Shoes, Cabbage

  Beatrix Potter (2012). “Peter Rabbit and Eleven Other Favorite Tales”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, Littles, Potato Chips

  "Lunch with Mariella: Jo Brand". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.

  Janet Evanovich

  Peanut Butter, Jelly, Sandwiches

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.348, Macmillan

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• I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Religious, Hate

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Nov 17, 2012

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• Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

  Paul Quarrington

  Two, People, Together

  Paul Quarrington (2011). “The Spirit Cabinet”, p.410, Vintage Canada

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• As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Past, Looks

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• When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

  Steve Toltz

  Loneliness, Kissing, Laughing

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

  Julia Child

  Apples, Cooking, Secret

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• People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Struggle, Cat

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• Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cat, Night, Yards

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• ... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

  Alan Bennett

  Philosophy, Book, Way

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.

  Josh Lanyon

  Potato Chips, Wanted, Wells

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.117, Samhain Publishing

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• I'm a big potato chip girl. I don't like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I've got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can't give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!

  NeNe Leakes

  Girl, Giving Up, Cake

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• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

  A. J. Liebling

  Christmas, Fall, Mean

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.14, Macmillan

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• I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.

  Ryan Lochte

  Potato Chips, Eating, Fast Food

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• It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

  Rachel Maddow

  Littles, Stuff, Tickets

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

  Stephen King

  Potato Chips, Murder, Just One

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• If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

  Kiera Cass

  Love You, Lovely, Together

  FaceBook post by Kiera Cass from Oct 07, 2012

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• Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fierce, Brides, Fury

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.2725, Macmillan

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• No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Dark, Hair

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• Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Real, Hard Times

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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• WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Heart, Men

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• I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Love, Fun, Creativity

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• For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

  Marlo Thomas

  Sweet, Children, Simple

  "Seasonal Ingredients: 12 Fresh and Healthy Recipes for Fall" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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