Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

Mahatma Gandhi

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

James Beard

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Joely Fisher

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

Julia Child

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

Julia Child

There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.

P. J. O'Rourke

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

Anton LaVey

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Robert Cormier

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Woodrow Wilson

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

Raymond E. Feist

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Robert M. Hutchins

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

Walter Bagehot

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Upton Sinclair

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

Robertson Davies

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Cybill Shepherd

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

Rose Macaulay

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Tyler Florence

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

Truman Capote

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Rex Stout

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

Will Ferrell

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Rebecca Wells

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you ...

W. H. Auden

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Rodney Dangerfield

my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens