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Quotes About Slices

keep the conversation focused on deli meats. Behind the counter, Otto politely slices and listens, occasionally interjecting questions. We're on track here. And then we're not. 'So! My daddy has been in London for ten days, and he comes back in four days, on Wednesday. He comes in to JFK airport on American Airlines flight 100, at terminal 8
~ Judith Newman
Bacon ~ Roald Dahl loved the smell of bacon sizzling in a frying pan. He even had his own bacon slicer, so that he could carve slices that were exactly right—as thin as tissue paper.
~ Wendy Cooling
You're not a priority if you're an option, you are a percentage. A percentage of that other person's time and effort. The size of the pie never changes, the slices do.
~ Tyconis D. Allison Ty
The Toaster] A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red sits at my elbow and toasts my bread. I hand him fat slices, then one by one he hands them back when he sees they are done.
~ William Jay Smith
Indifferent and bright as a slaughterhouse knife, he passed by, cleaving them all into two slices which came noiselessly together again, though emitting a slight scent of hopelessness which no one divulged.
~ Jean Genet
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than the rest.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
Use slices to identify all the tasks and details relevant to a specific outcome.
~ Jeff Patton
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It's not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it's more like a song on a policeman's radio, how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces.
~ Richard Siken
prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams.
~ Tom Douglas
But here they were, and Olive pictured two slices of Swiss cheese pressed together, such holes they brought to this union--what pieces life took out of you.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Mary kept down the housekeeping bills to the very best of her ability, but meat was always dear, and she suspected the maid of cutting surreptitious slices from the joint and eating them in her bedroom with bread and treacle in the dead of night, for the girl had disordered and eccentric appetites.
~ Arthur Machen
Henry knows all movies are ghost stories, frozen slices of time, endlessly replayed. Whatever will happen has already happened. The only thing he and Paul can do is witness it.
~ Ellen Datlow
Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
~ Enrico Caruso
Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.
~ Michael Montoure, Slices
Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.
~ Stefano Benni
Presently we began to have our slices of the national cake," F. Scott Fitzgerald remembered, "and our idealism only flared up when the newspapers made melodrama out of such stories as Harding and the Ohio Gang or Sacco and Vanzetti.
~ Bruce Watson
A chunk of seared albacore tuna, salted and peppered, then seared rare in a little oil in a hot skillet for just a minute or so per side, is the perfect addition to a savory plate of fried rice. Just slice the tuna across the grain and fan those mild, meaty slices over the top of the rice.
~ Tom Douglas
savored the taste of the lemon slices that floated inside
~ Laila Lalami
Though you did eat all the pizza." "I only had five slices," Simon protested, leaning his chair backward so it balanced precariously on its two back legs. "How many slices did you think were in a pizza, dork?" Clary wanted to know. "Less than five slices isn't a meal. It's a snack." Simon looked apprehensively at Luke. "Does this mean you're going to wolf out and eat me?" "Certainly not." Luke rose to toss the pizza box into the trash. "You would be stringy and hard to digest.
~ Cassandra Clare
What I'm saying—I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it's important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.
~ Nora Roberts