Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

Bill Bryson

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

Neville Crichton

I would be surprised if we and Wild Oats were not in sight of each other all the way, unfortunately.

Edith Wharton

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

Horace

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

George Carlin

Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up.

Libba Bray

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

Stephanie Zimbalist

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Steve Martin

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?

George Bernard Shaw

You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!

Bill Fleming

We put 40,000 gallons of water on it the day before the race. It makes the mud like chocolate pudding.

Jorge Posada

I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking.

Willy Wonka

Uh, Little Boy, my chocolate must be untouched by human hands!

Lauren Bowles

I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you! I love having a good piece of dark chocolate, one that's 70 percent or more cacao.

Mariska Hargitay

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Charles M. Schulz

All you require is adore. But just a little chocolate at times will not damage.

Bill Maher

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.