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  It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eye, Space, Blue

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

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Heart, Pie

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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, Vegetables, Poor

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• The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.

  Mike Myers

  Nuts, Peanuts

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• Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Fighting, Light

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• Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

  John Thorne

  Two, Oneness, Apples

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• [There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knives, Appreciate, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.221, Psychology Press

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• Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.

  David Wolfe

  Falling In Love, Feel Good, Feelings

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• The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Sea, Owl

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 1 (1871)

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• Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

  Jean Hersey

  Somewhere Else, Want, Size

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

  Russell Baker

  Family, Children, Confused

  Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Hate, Book, Sleep

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• Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

  Sharon Creech

  Thinking, Brain, Trying

  Sharon Creech (2001). “Love That Dog”, p.64, A&C Black

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• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. . . They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.

  Jack Nicholson

  Opportunity, Long, Tomatoes

  "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.

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• I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sweet, Garden, White

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.28

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• Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea? The answer is... Yes. Of course it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Powerful

  "The Tale of Despereaux". Book by Kate DiCamillo, 2003.

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• Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Silence, Would Be, Leisure

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• I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

  James Bay

  Kids, Black, Littles

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• Runny's Nicpic One day Runny Babbit Met little Franny Fog. He said, "Let's have a nicpic Down by the lollow hog." He brought some cutter bookies, Some teanuts and some pea. And what did Franny Fog bring? Her whole fog framily.

  Shel Silverstein

  Fog, One Day, Littles

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• The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!

  John Green

  Cheer, Together, Hips

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Penguin

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• Someone is dead.
  Even the trees know it,
  those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
  all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

  Anne Sexton

  Dancer, Tree, Green

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Morning, Two, Yesterday

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you think of the "Exorcist" (1973) you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

  Matt Reeves

  Real, Thinking, Looks

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

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• My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  Healthy, Soup, Bananas

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