Spoons Quotes - Page 3

• I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Half, Saws, Revolutionary

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading
  anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it
  kept the heart alive.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Heart, Fighting

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• I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

  Tobe Hooper

  Children, Moving, Piano

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• To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

  Shay Mitchell

  Eye, Tea, Bags

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• If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, Joy, Machines

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.83, David R. Godine Publisher

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• There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Men, Sweat, Two

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• You're the little spoon, aren't you?

  Rob Thurman

  Littles

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• Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

  Bergen Evans

  Coffee, Civilized

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• The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Rip, Son

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• I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.

  Carolyn Chute

  Writing, Cutting, Tree

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• Don't be polite.
  Bite in.
  Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
  It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
  You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
  For there is no core
  or stem
  or rind
  or pit
  or seed
  or skin
  to throw away.

  Eve Merriam

  Running, Knives, Skins

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• It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

  Willie Dixon

  Song, Soul, Gold

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• Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

  Malin Akerman

  Nutella, Jars, Week

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

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• There's no silver spoon treatment in this place.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Fighter, Silver

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• Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn't eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon.

  Liam Payne

  Use, Soup, Waitress

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• This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Lovely, Oscars, Next

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• As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Taste, Pot

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• During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.

  Fred Thompson

  Ohio, President, Campaigns

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• Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Pressure Groups, Focus

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• Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wise, Buddhist

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• I've always had a strange fear of spoons.

  Liam Payne

  Strange

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• There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

  Colin Fletcher

  Cutting, Journey, Iron

  Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf

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• Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.

  Tom Baker

  Kindness

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• All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

  Kalle Lasn

  Song, Top Down, Agency

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• I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

  Peter Mayle

  Shopping, People, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 26, 2011

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