Pot Quotes - Page 25

• Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

  Tink

  Beautiful, Giving, Important

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• The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Visitors, Busy

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Lawyer, Quarrels

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

  Anna Quindlen

  Education, School, Class

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Glue, Nails

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• It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
  It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
  It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
  Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

  Louis MacNeice

  Country, Government, Years

  'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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• BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

  Morley Safer

  Safe Haven, Nuts, Land

  1985 In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

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• I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.

  Leah Chase

  People, Cooking, Sandwiches

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• To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

  Timothy Leary

  Mistake, Years, Two

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• In a recent interview, Howard Dean admitted that he used to drink and smoke pot. So, now all he needs to put him over the top is a sex scandal.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Needs, Scandal

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• Laughter not time destroyed my voice
  And put that crack in it,
  And when the moon's pot-bellied
  I get a laughing fit.

  William Butler Yeats

  Laughter, Moon, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Understanding, Crowds, Pints

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• He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Hands, Envy, Ink

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• See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, America

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• When you live on Cold Mountain long enough the autumns pass quickly When you live alone you have no worries When you leave the doors open no one bothers you The bubbling stream runs forever In the cave a clay pot boils over a fire on the ground A wandering breeze stirs the fragrant pines When hungry I eat one simple meal And lean against the rock in complete harmony

  Hanshan

  Running, Autumn, Simple

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• Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.

  James N. Watkins

  Encouragement, Shining, Treasure

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• The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Ice, President

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fall, Passing Away, Tin

  H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

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• I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs!
  Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already f-king did them all, alright? There's none left! We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot
  and the f-kin' kettle.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Kings, Reading

  "No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Jobs, Responsibility

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• Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

  Immortal Technique

  Angel, Diversity, Devil

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• I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

  Brice Marden

  Couple, Smoke

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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