Gravy Quotes - Page 3

• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  Patrick Carney

  Fun, Play, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Christmas, Country, Morning

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• Joe gave me some more gravy.

  Charles Dickens

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.23, The Planet

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• Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Breakfast Food, Eggs

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• oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
  so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
  they won't know the difference
  and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

  Frank O'Hara

  Movie, Mother, Differences

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

  Wanda Sykes

  Real, Goal, Tvs

  "For Wanda Sykes, 'Funny Always Wins'". Interview with Abdul Ali, www.theroot.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

  Anne Sexton

  Ocean, Caves, Earth

  Anne Sexton, “As It Was Written”

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• There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

  David Letterman

  Turkeys, Pipeline, Want

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• There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

  Julie Burchill

  Girl, War, Smart

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• Gravy is persistently plagued by two problems. Problem number one - skin. And problem number two - lumps.

  Ari Shapiro

  Two, Numbers, Skins

  Source: www.npr.org

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• She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing

  Lorrie Moore

  Real, Tools, Given

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• The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Awards, Who I Am, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• My kids teased me at dinner that I'm not cool. I told them if I was cool I wouldn't be sitting at home with my kids. Pass the gravy.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Home, Kids, Sitting

  Twitter post from Feb 4, 2014

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• Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and up and up, the further detached I get from everybody else. Luckily, with my girlfriend, everything is gravy because I brought her into it. I brought her in and she's very hands on with my career.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Hands

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• what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Pie, Gossip, News

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Girlfriend, Ham, Potatoes

  "Exclusive Interview With 1D's Louis!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 9, 2012.

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• Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

  E. C. Bentley

  School, Science, Class

  'Biography for Beginners' (1905) 'Sir Humphrey Davy'

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• We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie and lots of gravy. Most players love it, but we also have a baked catfish for players who are still looking to stay on the approved diet.

  Mark Farner

  Country, Sweet, Player

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• Science and its practice are no longer free and willing today but instead are constantly terrorized by research funding gravy trains and group thinking. This is why science needs defending and it takes courage to cleanse science from those cancerous elements and to bring her forward in its rightful place again. I am humbled and honored by this recognition.

  Willie Soon

  Thinking, Practice, Groups

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• I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

  Kathy Freston

  Fur, Grit, Meat

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• So sucker MC's, please think twice;
  Would you join the navy if you didn't like the gravy and rice?

  Special Ed

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Navy

  Song: Think About It, Album: Youngest in Charge

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• It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Jobs, Children, Self

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• It's all gravy when everything's great, but if there comes a point where there's a problem, as with any kind of relationship you need to fix it. There's always going to be something, and it could be the smallest detail you'd never have expected or it could be something substantial, but it's how you deal with things.

  Erol Alkan

  Details, Needs, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

  John Guare

  Writing, Years, Twenties

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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