Pot Quotes - Page 30

• To a boiling pot flies come not.

  George Herbert

  Boiling

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.296

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• We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Melting, Want, Able

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Country, Thinking, Melting

  "Patrick Soon-Shiong on Giving and Getting by in Los Angeles". Interview with Gabriel Kahn, www.lamag.com. April 18, 2013.

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• I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Chance, Welcome, Cooks

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• Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Hands, Knives

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.192, Taylor & Francis

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• I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Astrology, Long, Abuse

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.253

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• Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Men, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.117

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• Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Melting, Chaos, Creation

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• [Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Bait, Poison

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Men, March

  Rod Serling's speech at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, December 3, 1968.

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• So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

  Marcel Proust

  Long, People, Bother

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.871, Wordsworth Editions

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• Well, the American public always wanted to vote for a guy — and Bush was the perfect guy — who they'd want to have over for pot-roast. And George Bush is that guy. He does that well. You'd like to have him over for pot-roast. He reminds you of yourself. Okay. Well, now he's been over, he's had the pot-roast. But he's getting drunk and now he's talking about stem cells and Terri Schiavo and gay marriage. And now he's the guest that won't leave.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Cells, Perfect Guy

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, April 29, 2005.

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• Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

  Tom Waits

  Advice, Gold, Musician

  Musician magazine, October 1987.

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• So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.

  Billy Joel

  Mother, Girlfriend, Play

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• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• To get wealth and security by guile
  Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Water, Clay, Wealth

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• I get mad when people are against pot.

  Tre Cool

  People, Mad

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• I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Thinking, Events

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.

  John Frusciante

  Space, Guitar, Hands

  High Times Magazine, July 1995.

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• Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Country, Race, People

  "The Tool Man: Blistering Band's Frontman Puts His Mind to the World's Problems". The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 25, 2001.

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• I wanna smoke pot, but I can't, cause I'm too paranoid.

  Drew Barrymore

  Causes, Paranoid, I Can

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• Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hot, Back Burner, Allowing

  Dr Charles R Swindoll (1982). “Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back”

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• Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

  Dick Morris

  Moving, Growth, Needs

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• When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

  Dennis Prager

  Wall, Confused, Class

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• Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now...? It's like I said to my wife: I love the fact that, if I was in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg walked in, I could go up to him and say, 'Hey, mate, how are you?' I think that's pretty amazing, actually.

  Nick Frost

  Thinking, Eight, Years

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