Vinegar Quotes - Page 4

• My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Trying

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• When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

  Steve Toltz

  Loneliness, Kissing, Laughing

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kings, Wine, Bullshit

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• Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.

  Ilona Andrews

  Tubs, Boundaries, Seducing

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.82, Penguin

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• Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

  Deb Caletti

  Insanity, Creepy, Shadow

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, New York, Tunnels

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

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• When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

  Lewis Carroll

  Sweet, Children, People

  Lewis Carroll “Alice's Adventures”, Lulu.com

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• I used to go to this store called Draeger's and you had a little bit of that same feeling because this was a store that offered you so many varieties, things you'd never contemplated before, you know like 250 mustards and vinegars and over 500 different kinds of fruits and vegetables, or over 2 dozen different types of water.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Vegetables, Water, Feelings

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.

  Bernie Marsden

  Musician, Band, Reason

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• I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible honor means that I represent the piss and vinegar, the energy, the defiance, the musicality of the Funk Brothers and Motown and Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger, Brownsville Station and Grand Funk Railroad and Eminem and Jack White and Kid Rock - are you kidding me?

  Ted Nugent

  Brother, Mean, Kids

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• Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar.

  Luis Bunuel

  Hands, Two, Degrees

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• A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spoons, Honey, Barrels

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• It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?

  Amy Winehouse

  Drinking, Wine, Cooking Dinner

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• You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hard Work, Use, May

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• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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• So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Want

  Tim Vine (2012). “The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition”, p.110, Random House

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Wine, Labels

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

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• You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Kindness, Generosity, Sugar

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