Spoons Quotes - Page 8

• What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

  Roger Ebert

  Food, Loss, Track

  "Life Itself". Documentary, January 19, 2014.

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• There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

  Edna O'Brien

  Real, Games, People

  Edna O'Brien (1979). “A Rose in the Heart”, Doubleday Books

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• Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

  Kathryn Hughes

  Real, Food, Autumn

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• Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let's use the spoon. I like to consider myself the big bowl-like area of the spoon that holds all the stuff you like.

  Brian Regan

  Cutting, Knives, Comedian

  Source: mauitime.com

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• My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

  Margaret Halsey

  Fear, Knees, Could Have Been

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Real, Book, Character

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• Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment.

  Bill Maher

  Chocolate, Entertainment, Needs

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September 2008.

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• I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

  Dane Cook

  Hands, Excited, Feds

  "Dane Cook Interview". Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• I often eat Skippys Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I dont shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.

  Willie Geist

  Dark, Night, Sneak In

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• I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city.

  Massimo Vignelli

  School, Years, Cities

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.

  Steve Zahn

  Two, Emergencies, Buckets

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• One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Mouths, Silver

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• I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Sleep, Hard Times, Men

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• I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

  Yohan Blake

  Golden, Mouths, Tough

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• But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

  Daniel Pennac

  Reading, Doors, Sound

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• Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

  Mark Twain

  Healing, Intellectual, Shovels

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.219, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.

  Biloine W. Young

  Air, Mexican, Giants

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• Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Equality, Together, Pedestal

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• In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That's the beauty of cinema, and it's hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people's minds stop working.

  David Lynch

  Fun, People, Mind

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• I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

  Ashley Jensen

  Museums, Smell, Church

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• High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

  John Mayer

  School, Useless, Ends

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

  Eddie Izzard

  Father, Sin, Bless

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• That’s Narmer with the spoon,” I guessed. “Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal?

  Rick Riordan

  Cereal, Breakfast, Blokes

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• What were you thinking? You just met him. (Selena) I know. It’s so not like me, but I couldn’t help myself. It was just like that weird magnetic force that grabs me when I’m walking past the Frostbyte Café and makes me swerve in to get a triple scoop of Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. The power of temptation was just too much, Selena. I couldn’t resist it. He was a Chunky Monkey container and all I could think was, ‘Someone give me a spoon.’ (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Thinking, Past

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