Gravy Quotes

• I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• 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.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Passion

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone”, p.82

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

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• A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

  Dolly Parton

  Attitude, Together, Biscuits

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• Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

  Joni Mitchell

  Expression

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• Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Winning, Would Be, Nominations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Dream, Food

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

  Erin McCarthy

  Cute, Sides, Want

  Erin McCarthy (2009). “Hard and Fast”, p.100, Penguin

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• Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

  Iris Murdoch

  Lying, People, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

  Totie Fields

  Happiness, Dresses, Brown

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• International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

  Charles Dickens

  Scrooge, Beef, May

  A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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• When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

  George Bernard Shaw

  Night, Men, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Native American, Funny Thanksgiving, Soy

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• There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn't matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.

  Brad Paisley

  Thinking, Dresses, Looks

  Song: That's Love, Album: Mud On The Tires, 2003

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• If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Honey, Train, Ifs

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• Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Beautiful, Sweet, Couple

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• Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Friendship, Food

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.307

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• All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

  David Heyman

  Trying, Film, Audience

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• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

  Al Jourgensen

  Second Chance, Kicking, Want

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• It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Cooking, Library

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• I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Nice, Play

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