Flour Quotes

• Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

  Ray Charles

  People, Giving, Together

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.155, Da Capo Press

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• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Analysis

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• Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

  Austin O'Malley

  Wisdom, Bread

  "Keystones of Thought". Book by Austin O'Malley, 1914.

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• Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

  Pablo Neruda

  Peace, Art, Bread

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• If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

  Jose Marti

  Life Lesson, Bread Of Life, Doors

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• This flour of wifly patience.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1775). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.40

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• Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

  Marian Keyes

  Eggs, Focus, Magic

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• A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

  Remy de Gourmont

  Definitions

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• In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  God, Mills

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• How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

  Rita Rudner

  Food, Cake, Eggs

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• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Tangled, Perception, Mind

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• Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Book, Honey

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.

  Robert Henryson

  Wind, Honour

  c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, stanza 65.

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• Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hurt, People, Ministry

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• We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

  Hafez

  Love, Dear Ones, Needs

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• Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Women, Home

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Men, Museums, Water

  Letter, May 17, 1867.

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Long, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 06, 2016

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• One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

  Marc Chagall

  Mother, Elbows, Want

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• My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Food, Fire, Light

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• I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

  Emily Dickinson

  Food, Grace, Mixing

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.116, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

  Sandra Lee

  Yards, Baking Soda, Nine

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Order, Eels, Doubt

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• I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.

  Anna Kendrick

  Chocolate, Sauce, Caramel

  "What To Expect When You're Expecting - Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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