Soup Quotes - Page 18

• ... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Real, Book, Laughing

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Hurt, Father

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• This soup tastes like windows

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Taste, Window

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• I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.

  Markus Zusak

  Loneliness, Thinking, Salad

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

  Markus Zusak

  Sky, Black, Red

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.24, RH Childrens Books

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• Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

  James Sallis

  Running, Memories, Motivation

  James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

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• Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, Prayer, Children

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• If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered. Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?" Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat." That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.

  Cassandra Clare

  Snacks, Looks, Attention

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Mind, Poor, Restaurants

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• One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Get Well, Humor

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• Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

  Ann Brashares

  Scared, Carrots, Made

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• Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice

  Maurice Sendak

  Nice, Gay, Each Month

  Maurice Sendak (1991). “Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months”, Harper Collins

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• Light like thin grey soup seeped through the windows. The door opened and Mrs. Dark came in, followed by her sister, who had no head, only the white bone of her spine protruding from her raggedly severed neck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Light, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .

  Barbara G. Walker

  Mother, Dark, Wind

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• Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.

  Julia Child

  Home, Vegetables, Littles

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.98, Knopf

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• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  Vanna White

  Pay, Alphabet, Alphabet Soup

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• I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Cabbage, Able, Diets

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• It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Alphabet, Contracts

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• Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

  Heinrich Heine

  Turtles, Reform, Judaism

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• Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

  Edward Thomas

  War, Knives, Eating

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• If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

  Kathleen Parker

  Tomatoes, Ifs

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• None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Brother, People, Sick

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• When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

  O. Henry

  Faces, Stories, Disaster

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• Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945.

  Herbie Mann

  Spices, Taste, Jamaicans

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