Quotes About Spice

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Haven't had your fill of interesting events? Never. They are the spice of life. She held up her half-finished hat. How do you like it? It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say? Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters.  Ferocious things, wild hamsters. 

Her Czech was freshly acquired (by wish, not study; Karou collected languages, and that's what Brimstone always gave her for her birthday) and it had still tasted strange on her tongue, like a new spice.

Those Puritans would spice the Gallic stew of upper Maine for years, causing no end of trouble to Agnes, who, to be fair, was a witch and a succubus and everything else they ever called her, but that's no excuse for being such poor neighbors, when you think about it.

No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!

In the Banda Islands, ten pounds of nutmeg cost less than one English penny. In London, that same spice sold for more than £2.10s. – a mark-up of a staggering 60,000 per cent. A small sackful was enough to set a man up for life, buying him a gabled dwelling in Holborn and a servant to attend to his needs

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

Wayward Brahmin: 'I can buy all the ginger and pepper you can grow.' Spice Islander: 'Marry my daughter!' The young bride melts into his arms. Wayward baron: 'But isn't it forbidden to marry outside caste, my guru?' 'Unless gig is very, very good, my disciple.' A century or so later: 'You grow all the ginger and pepper we can buy!

Portugal retained its ambition to wrest control of the spice trade from the Arabs, and to reach the Spice Islands

Qualified sailors were rare in Seville, and qualified sailors willing to risk their lives on a voyage to the Spice Islands rarer still.

Magellan's insistence on a ten-year exclusive on voyages to the Spice Islands appeared preposterous

King Charles dispatched a follow-up expedition to the Spice Islands only six years after Magellan's departure from Spain.

This error might have been intentional, to disguise the Spice Islands' location from outsiders

Magellan's expedition to the Spice Islands must not violate the treaty.

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks

routes between Asia and Europe were severed. The prospect of establishing a spice trade via an ocean route opened up

My favorite season is pumpkin spice.

Keep calm and pumpkin spice everything.

I've eaten it since I was wee high to a snail's butt, and ah, it has not only counteracted the destructive elements that I have imposed upon my beautiful God-given brain, but given me a genius that I cannot account for except for the chile seed." says Jimmy Santiago Baca, New Mexico's most famous Chicano poet.

Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest. In painted chambers loaded with tilebooks. They are still. Once quick in the brains of men. Still: but an itch of death is in them, to tell me in my ear a maudlin tale, urge me to wreak their will.

Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. (p. 248.)

You don't need Montreal steak seasoning on everything.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.