Vegetables Quotes - Page 22

• I don't eat green things, no vegetables.

  Preet Bharara

  Green, Green Things

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• I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.

  Noel Coward

  Green, Overrated

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• Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train

  Viktoria Komova

  Looks, Useless, Computer

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• Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.

  Bob Harper

  Kale, Trying, Use

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• We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Meat, Pins, Stills

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

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• Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

  Dakota Fanning

  Long, Salad, Lasts

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• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Miracle, Thanks

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside music festival before thousands of cheering fans. He conveys the thrills and challenges of living abroad, the confusions and regrets, and most of all the opportunity to become the person we always hoped to be.

  Peter Hessler

  Regret, Cheer, Opportunity

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• I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

  Lesley Nicol

  Sticks, Basics, Ovens

  Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. January 5, 2013.

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• I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

  Curtis Stone

  Lunch, People, Yards

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• We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Air, Meat

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

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• They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Book, Feelings

  "Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited". Interview with John Doran, thequietus.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Corn Syrup, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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• One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

  Bruce Dawe

  Running, Men, Garden

  Bruce Dawe (1971). “Condolences of the season: selected poems”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.

  Sara Gruen

  Grateful, Kids, Lazy

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• If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Vision, Might

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• They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Winter, Boys, Night

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• Long live the weeds that overwhelm
  My narrow vegetable realm!
  The bitter rock, the barren soil
  That force the son of man to toil;
  All things unholy, marred by curse,
  The ugly of the universe.

  Theodore Roethke

  Weed, Son, Men

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.39, Anchor

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• Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

  Randolph Bedford

  Dirty, Animal, Australia

  Randolph Bedford (1976). “Naught to thirty-three”, Melbourne University

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• Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth.

  John Playfair

  Science, Animal, Rocks

  John Playfair, James George Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.32

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• Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Miracle, Heaven

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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• My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Boys, Poor, Splendid

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• One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

  Mia Kirshner

  Dog, Artist, Makeup

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• "Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Angel, Animal, Men

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• Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

  Food, Color, Cooking

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