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Quotes About Soup

I especially like to make my own ginkgo soup, bean curd sheet soup, and red bean soup. This way, I can control the sugar portions.
~ Alvin Leung
I love anything paneer! Our family favorite, however, is 'Dal Dhokli,' a quintessential Gujarati dish of bread dumplings and lentil soup. That's the big meal of the week typically prepared by my mother on Sundays.
~ Sunita Williams
We call this a priming effect and say that the idea of EAT primes the idea of SOUP, and that WASH primes SOAP.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.
~ Agatha Christie
But it is beautiful, my friend," said Hercule Poirot with admiration. "So clear—so beautifully clear." "You sound as if you were talking about soup," grumbled the inspector. "It may be Consommé to you—but to me there's a good deal of thick Mock Turtle about it still.
~ Agatha Christie
Some great soups are filling and warm. So, at the four o'clock hour, when people are craving caffeine and a cookie, soup is a really great option because it fills you up and feels like a meal, so it can keep you going until dinner, but it's not hugely caloric.
~ Anna Kaiser
Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.
~ Allison Tolman
I don't always eat soup for dinner, but it's surprisingly filling.
~ Candace Cameron Bure
More than anything else, I love the sensation of the weight of the soup in my hand when I hold the soup bowl in my hand and the warm, fresh taste of the soup. It's like having the warmth of a newborn baby's squishy flesh in my hand.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.
~ Richard Gehman
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.
~ Laurie Colwin
Sometimes I sense that I have lost an intensity of feeling along with the moments of lacerating despair, I have greedily swapped them for ordinary life. That may sound dull, but I tell you it is sweet. It is not caviar I crave, but clean sheets and hot soup.
~ William Dudley
tequila, which Selya called "loudmouth soup.
~ William Finnegan
We could eat, why not? We're sober, so he'll let us in, the bastard. I ate there the other night, had a bowl of soup because I was starvin'. But god it was sour. Them dried-out bums that live there, they sit down and eat like fuckin' pigs, and everything that's left they throw in the pot and give it to you. Slop." "He puts out a good meal, though.
~ William Kennedy
Douglas claimed that in his New Salem days Lincoln "could ruin more liquor than all the boys of the town together"—a charge that was not merely inaccurate but singularly inappropriate from a senator known to have a fondness for drink—and Lincoln jeered that Douglas's popular-sovereignty doctrine was "as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.
~ David Herbert Donald
what the French call une soupe au lait: a once-calm pot of milk, warmed up on the stovetop, that was threatening to boil over.
~ David Lebovitz
the mistake of calling an assiette à soupe (soup plate) a soup bowl (bol) because it has sides to hold in soup.
~ David Lebovitz
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
~ George Burns
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.
~ Keith Floyd
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
~ Jilly Cooper
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
~ Jerry Seinfeld