Muffins Quotes

• People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

  John Jay Chapman

  Happiness, Worry, People

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• One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Way, Should

  "The Importance of Being Earnest".

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• Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Creativity, Thinking, Recipes

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• Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

  Janet Evanovich

  Nice, Tables, Studs

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Cupcakes, Consumed

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• A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

  Denzel Washington

  Criticism, Tables, Might

  "Denzel Washington". Book by James Robert Parish, 2009.

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• Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

  Colin Mochrie

  Giving, Liberty, Give Me

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• Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cuffs, Importance Of Being Earnest, Calmness

  Charles Osborne, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Novel for Serious People”, p.100, St. Martin's Press

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• If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Writing, Sleep

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• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”, p.62

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• Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.

  Davey Havok

  Jesus, Trying, Looks

  "Despairing with AFI" by Kate Stroup in Rolling Stone Magazine, March 25, 2003.

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• English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.

  Mia Hamm

  Breakfast, Avocados, My Favorite

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• You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Tired

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1104, e-artnow

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• Some people... some people like cupcakes
  Exclusively, while myself, I say,
  There is naught nor ought there be nothing
  So exalted on the face of god's grey
  Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

  Frank Zappa

  Cupcakes, People, Earth

  Song: Muffin Man, Album: Bongo Fury

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• Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

  David Sedaris

  Art, Weekend, Boys

  David Sedaris (2010). “Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Eye, Red Flags, Eating Disorder

  "Janeane Garofalo". TV Special, August 23, 1997.

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• My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.

  Sara Blakely

  Baby, Spanx

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• When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Unhappy, Trouble, Moments

  Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC

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• You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

  Tamora Pierce

  Scary, Looks, Beka Cooper

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2”, p.531, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

  Oscar Wilde

  Looks, Eating, Repentance

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.159, Penguin

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• It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Impossible, Produce

  "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Talk DARK SHADOWS, Pulling from the TV Series, Deleted Scenes, a Sequel and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

  Dane Cook

  Enough Time, Lays, Ifs

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• How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heartless, Cuffs, Way

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Son

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Cute, Too Much, Way

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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