Salt Quotes - Page 27

• Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

  Alice Walker

  Change, White, Collaboration

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. Still the less can the Roman Pontiff glory because he can be judged by men, or rather, can be shown to be already judged, if for example he should wither away into heresy; because he who does not believe is already judged, In such a case it should be said of him: 'If salt should lose its savor, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under foot by men.'

  Pope Innocent III

  Believe, Men, Feet

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• If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.

  Nasim Pedrad

  Morning, Block, Men

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• To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

  Eugenia Sheppard

  Fashion, Kissing, Kiss Of Death

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• My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.

  Judd Apatow

  Dad, Hipster, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Light, Air

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.

  Lily Tomlin

  Thinking, Ideas, Laughing

  "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

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• I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lakes, Cities, Tea

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.407, Routledge

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• A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Luxury, Bread, Peppers

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 28), 1975.

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• The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.

  Mae Brussell

  Circles, Lakes, Israel

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.249, Feral House

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• The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.

  Bob Brozman

  Running, Moving, Air

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• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

  Matthew Arnold

  Weed, Light, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 35

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• 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

  William Shakespeare

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

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• There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

  Herbert Spencer

  Envy, Generosity, Mountain

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• History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Art, Taken, History

  Phyllis McGinley, Gerald Durrell (1969). “Birds, beasts, and relatives”, Viking Adult

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• the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.

  Alice Meynell

  Flower, Feet, Should Have

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.451, eBookIt.com

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• At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

  Isabel Allende

  Time, Water, Age

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Bread, Path, Stairs

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• When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.

  Winifred Holtby

  Pain, Love Is, Missing

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

  Isabel Burton

  Europe, Intrigue, Turkish

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3

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• The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

  Marian Burros

  Spices, Bills, Herbs

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• We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Profound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

  Frederick Marryat

  Ocean, Rivers, Water

  Frederick Marryat (1873). “Jacob Faithful”, p.1

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• A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Way, Chance

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