Sugar Quotes - Page 14

• So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet and passing the sugar.

  Frances Hardinge

  Feet, Secret, Nests

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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• I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

  William Cowper

  Slavery, Pity, Rum

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.122

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• Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, Smell, Violet

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

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• The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

  George Jean Nathan

  Sarcastic, Triumph, Diabetes

  George Jean Nathan (1919). “Comedians All”

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• Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

  Dick Schaap

  Fake People, Book, Writing

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• When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resides neither in the C, nor in the O, nor in the H; it resides in the pattern that emerges from their interaction. It is an emergent property. Moreover, strictly speaking, is not a property of the chemical bonds. It is a sensory experience that arises when the sugar molecules interact with the chemistry of our taste buds, which in turns causes a set of neurons to fire in a certain way. The experience of sweetness emerges from that neural activity.

  Fritjof Capra

  Sweet, Science, Fire

  David Diamond, Fritjof Capra (2007). “Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based Dialogue”, p.169, Trafford Publishing

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• The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment.

  Claude Bernard

  Mean, Tissues, Firsts

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• This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.

  Luis Federico Leloir

  Team, Science, Discovery

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• Strawberries that in gardens grow
  Are plump and juicy fine,
  But sweeter far as wise men know
  Spring from the woodland vine.
  No need for bowl or silver spoon,
  Sugar or spice or cream,
  Has the wild berry plucked in June
  Beside the trickling stream.
  One such to melt at the tongue's root,
  Confounding taste with scent,
  Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
  Which points my argument.

  Robert Graves

  Summer, Wise, Spring

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.

  Walter Houser Brattain

  Science, Interesting, Example

  "Physics: 1942-1962". Book by Nobel Foundation, 1964.

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• Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

  David Perlmutter

  Alzheimer's, Blood, Risk

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• Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.

  Theodor Billroth

  Looks, Coats, Failing

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• Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Rain, Islamic

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• A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay.... For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Real, Character, Gay

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• To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

  Charles Lamb

  Honey, Sweetness, Tedious

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.54

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• Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, White, Rags

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.

  Dorian Yates

  Workout, Simple, Carbohydrates

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• One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Practice, Division

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• It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

  E. B. White

  Love, Horse, Fighting

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• Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

  John Burroughs

  Goodbye, Running, Sweet

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press

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• A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Funny, Morning, Cutting

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

  George Saunders

  Birthday, Drama, Rain

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
  1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods
  2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain
  3. Avoid salty and sugary foods
  4. Cut down on sugar
  5. Emphasize whole grains
  6. Beware of alcohol
  7. Emphasize the Healthy Five:
  Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds
  Sprouted seeds such as soybeans
  Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ
  Yogurt and kefir
  Fresh fruits and vegetables

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Cutting, Vegetables

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• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  Sam Donaldson

  Sweet, Water, Waiting

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