Pie Quotes

• Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

  Irving Berlin

  Coffee, Food, Gold

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• We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

  David Mamet

  Stress, Food, Cooking

  David Mamet (2010). “Boston Marriage”, p.34, Knopf Group E-Books

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• So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Cutting, Silver

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.438, Anchor

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• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Broken Heart, Food, Broken Promises

  1738 Polite Conversation.

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• I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

  Paula Deen

  Want, Good Food, Holes

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• Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.303, Oxford University Press

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• You like pie? I like pie.

  Barack Obama

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• Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

  Kevin James

  Pain, Heart, Going Away

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• Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

  Dave Thomas

  Giving, Chance, Enough

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• If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.

  Jay Leno

  Life, Thinking, People

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• Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

  Tom Robbins

  Falling In Love, Love Life, Ideas

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

  Nora Ephron

  Fun, Want, Loving Person

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• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  Maya Angelou

  Trying, Why Not, Dozen

  "No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

  Martha Stewart

  Inspirational, Cutting, Perfect

  Martha Stewart (2006). “The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business”, p.97, Rodale

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• Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Humility, Buddhism

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• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

  Bernie Mac

  Hug, Pieces, Plenty

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• If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Giving, Enough

  Interview with Oprah, www.oprah.com. February 2003.

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• If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

  Marisa Miller

  Yummy, Scratches, Rich

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• God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Funny, God, Humorous

  "Screen: Angry-Young-Man Fairy Tale; 'Georgy Girl' Arrives at the Fine Arts Lynn Redgrave Stars in Tragicomic Film" by Michael Stern, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 1966.

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• Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

  Hilary Swank

  People, Baking, Knows

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  Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Liberty, Debt

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

  Roald Dahl

  Weather, Apples, Giving

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.42, Penguin

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• Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

  Craig Ferguson

  Distance, Years, Long

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