Sauce Quotes - Page 8

• The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Sight

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.159, OUP Oxford

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• A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Years, Practice

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• The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Blood, Looks, Kind

  "War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

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• On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

  Vinny Paz

  Funny, Boxing, Legs

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• A lot of it comes from tiny things, like not eating barbecue sauce with my pizza at two in the morning. I think it's all a manifestation of being happy and wanting to treat myself well. The truth is, I'm not getting up an hour earlier and walking on a treadmill. I have the greatest workout partner in the world. And you don't need a gym membership for that kind of workout.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Workout, Morning, Thinking

  "A Mighty Heart: Jason Sudeikis Dishes on Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

  Jennifer Esposito

  Mother, Mean, Italian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

  George Eads

  Character, Sleep, Thinking

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• The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.

  Tony Horwitz

  Grandma, Italian, Past

  Tony Horwitz (2008). “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World”, Henry Holt and Company

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• A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

  Edward Abbey

  Doubt, Meals, Hunger

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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• You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!

  Homer

  Brother, Taste, Looks

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• Kale is my best friend. I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale! I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever.

  Alanis Morissette

  Kale, Bored, My Best Friend

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• SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Ninety Nine, Civilization

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.163, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce in hubcaps. Because there's no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, Men, Eggs

  "A day of awkwardness with Mitt Romney" by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Soup's on and I got a coupon.
  Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon.
  He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce...
  And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."

  Daniel Dumile

  Kings, Rap, Ducks

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• There is this place in Nashville called Steak and Shake, which is pretty much the best food, ever. That is our secret, sexy place to go. When I look over at her when she's biting into a steak sandwich and there is some steak sauce dripping down her chin, there is nothing sexier.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Sexy, Nashville, Secret

  "Liam Hemsworth — Why I Think Miley Cyrus Is Smokin’ Hot", hollywoodlife.com. November 10, 2011.

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• They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Sushi, Soy

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• I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Country, Two, Insulting

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• Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, White, Simplicity

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• My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Wife, Lambs, Mint

  Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria

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• I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

  Gaylord Perry

  Apples, Chocolate, Salt

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• All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.

  Todd English

  Numbers, Vegetables, Advice

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• People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

  Amy Gerstler

  Laughter, Dark, Winter

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

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• We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Believe, People, Add

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

  Paul Bloom

  Men, Animal, Sticks

  Paul Bloom (2011). “How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like”, p.52, Random House

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• Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. Im crazy about L.A. because at the farmers market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Crazy, Italian, Vegetables

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