Olives Quotes

• I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, Simple, Oil

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• You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Should Have, Oil, Cooking

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• The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Hero, Wine, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (1978). “Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra”, Viking Pr

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• The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

  Thucydides

  Wine, Vines, Barbarism

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• Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

  Colin Tudge

  Plato, Thinking, Tree

  "Why woodlands are wonderful" by Colin Tudge, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry.

  Johnny Carson

  Two, Hungry, Martini

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• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  George Ellwanger

  Wine, Men, Oil

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• I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Orange, Hands, Vegetables

  "Releasing My Inner Emeril: Lagasse Grilled" by Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Party, Drinking, Beer

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

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• They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Literature, Architecture

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Hands, Branches

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  Daniel Boone

  Spring, Blessing, Hands

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Food, Wine, Water

  Lawrence Durrell (1978). “Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra”, Viking Pr

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• The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Tree, Heaven, Olive Oil

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• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Winter, Oil, Juice

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for purple-sprouting broccoli with olive oil mash, plus scallops and jerusalem artichokes with celery and lemon" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  Rachael Ray

  Girl, Oil, Cooking

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• I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

  Jennifer Morrison

  White, Navy, Black

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

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• If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.

  Alice Waters

  Oil, Tuesday, Gone

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• I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You can marinate juniper berry or a little bit of olive oil and some citrus and fresh herbs - all of that sort of stuff.

  Curtis Stone

  Oil, Healthy, Berries

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• I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

  Dean Karnazes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Corn Syrup

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

  George Orwell

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

  Anne Burrell

  Oil, Trying, Pork

  "Chef Burrell shares restaurant secrets in TV show". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. July 8, 2008.

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

  Neal Barnard

  Needs, Olive Oil, Care

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• O beautiful white land,
  olives and wild anemone and violet
  mingled among the shale,
  and purple wings
  of little winter-butterflies
  say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.332, New Directions Publishing

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