Pudding Quotes - Page 3

• My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

  Jennifer Hudson

  Control Myself, House, Devil

  "Jennifer Hudson: This Girl is on Fire". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. November 13, 2012.

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• It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.

  Al Franken

  Philadelphia, Hey, Causes

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• Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.

  Errol Morris

  Men, Thinking, Quests

  From 'Don’t Look Back' to 'After Innocence': A New Book Explores Documentary Filmmaking with Directo, www.indiewire.com. August 25, 2005.

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• White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

  James Joyce

  Beautiful, Simple, Eggs

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• I'm just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants!

  Chris Farley

  Sheep, Chocolate, Underpants

  "Fictional character: Mike Donnelly". "Black Sheep", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

  Daniel Handler

  Pyramids, Psychology, Pills

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• I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar.

  Donald Sinden

  Sweet, Brother, Salmon

  "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.

  Haruki Murakami

  Two, People, Missing

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• Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? ... I, for one, would much rather swoon over a few thin slices of prime beefsteak, or one small serving of chocolate mousse, or a sliver of foie gras than indulge to the full on such nonentities as fat-free gelatin puddings.

  Julia Child

  Media, Hype, People

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• Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.

  Helen Fielding

  Lonely, Fun, Weekend

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• The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information.

  George Polya

  Giving, Inventory, Recipes

  "How to Solve It" by George Polya, Expanded Princeton Science Library Edition, (p. 219), 2004.

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• Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

  Simon Hoggart

  House, Lucky, Toffee

  "Lady Thatcher tribute: MPs serve up a gigantic sticky toffee pudding" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Song, Cutting, Black

  'Time and Western Man' (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

  George Orwell

  Country, Horse, Kings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding," “Why are they all high-calorie foods?

  Richelle Mead

  Pie, Bread Pudding, Use

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.

  Sara Coleridge

  Ice, Expectations, Smoking

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.145

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• No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Spiritual, Doors, Answers

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.180, Macmillan

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• I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.

  William Golding

  Men, Skulls, World

  "The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction". Book by Gabriel Josipovici, 1971.

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• Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

  Julia Child

  Children, Growing Up, Revenge

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• Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."

  Charles Lamb

  Business, Women, Two

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John G. Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Sydney: "You can be Jet if you want, but we are not posing as a couple again" Adrian: "Are you sure? Because I've got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding." Sydney: "Why are they all high-calorie foods? And bread pudding isn't really that romantic." Adrian: "Do you want me to call you celery stick instead? It just doesn't inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings." - The Indigo Spell

  Richelle Mead

  Couple, Pie, Bread Pudding

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• Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Law, June, Tea

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• She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.

  John Fowles

  Passion, Men, Soul

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.

  Bryan Talbot

  Strong, Boys, Mushrooms

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