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Quotes About Grapefruit

Agatha: The acid had lost a lot of potency … but it did get right in his eyes . Jiminez: It stings! Like a really mean grapefruit!
~ Phil Foglio
Life,' he said, 'is like a grapefruit.' 'Er, how so?' 'Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.
~ Douglas Adams
Rosewood has always been one of my favourite scents, as has the pink grapefruit and pepper we've also put in Homme.
~ David Beckham
We all know lemon is loved by salmon, but the fish also adores the flavour and acidity of pink grapefruit.
~ Rick Stein
My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.
~ Skylar Grey
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
~ Douglas Adams
If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.
~ Christian Louboutin
Squirrels always eat nuts with two hands, always two hands, "arararar", and occasionally, they stop and go, oh, uh, ah, as if they're going, "Did I leave the gas on? No! I'm, no I'm a fucking squirrel!" And occasionally they go, "Fucking nuts! Fed up with them always. I long for a grapefruit.
~ Eddie Izzard
Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
~ Rod Serling
In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
~ Fergie
Grapefruit Diet May Be Credible After All Now it turns out we may have spoken too soon. In spring 2006, a study from the division of endocrinology of the department
~ Jonny Bowden
Potential weight loss, cholesterol lowering, and anticancer benefits aside—and those are pretty big benefits to put aside—grapefruit is a good low-calorie source of potassium and vitamin C. It even has a drop of calcium and magnesium, 20 mg of phytosterols, and a gram or two of fiber. The red and pink varieties also have vitamin A, beta-carotene, and the aforementioned cancer-fighting
~ Jonny Bowden
In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
~ Fergie
Here's how they make a spicy grapefruit margarita at Colonel Teddy's Tiki Bar on Siesta Key: Take a fresh habañero pepper, cut it in half, and then steep it in three ounces of Pueblo Viejo tequila. Next, add an ounce of freshly squeezed lime juice, an ounce of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice, and then one ounce of simple syrup plus a couple handfuls of crushed ice. Cover and shake it
~ Blaize Clement
I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.
~ Sylvia Plath
Catherine long ago decided that grapefruit is the only proper breakfast juice. It is wake-up juice. Orange juice is acceptable as an alternative but really it's for the slack, for people who don't really want to wake up. As for those who like apple or cranberry juice in the morning, you just know they are weak. Masturbators and adulterers.
~ Stephen May
Trudno wyobrazi? sobie, ?e rak ma cokolwiek wspólnego z ró?owym grapefruitem. A jednak oba sÄ… produktami mozaicyzmu: ?ywych linii komórkowych ró?niÄ…cych siÄ™ od reszty ciaÅ'a mutacjami, które odziedziczyÅ'y po komórkach macierzystych.
~ Carl Zimmer
Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail.
~ Chelsea Handler
So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.
~ Angie Dickinson
Sort of on this topic…I know this is a loaded question coming from me, but what would you say is your relationship with drinking and alcohol? You mentioned having "grapefruit seltzer water on the rocks" when your stepdad has a cocktail
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
In Candida, grapefruit seed extract (GSE) and olive leaf extract has been found to be very effective against a broad range of parasitic invaders.
~ Lewis Harrison
But the beans—ah, the beans. And the pickles—oh, the pickles. And the grapefruit juice, and the coffee, and the Dr. Jekyllish formulation of all that Austin had so cavalierly tossed into his maw left no doubt in his head that nature was not only calling—she was screaming bloody murder.
~ Unknown
I mentioned earlier in which people lost weight after adding three apples or pears to their daily diets.2223 Certain other fruits were not as successful, though. Adding three grapefruit halves, around three kiwifruits, or half a mango a day didn't result in significant weight loss (although it didn't result in weight gain either).
~ Michael Greger
Inform your physician if you eat grapefruit. This fruit can suppress the enzymes that help clear more than half of commonly prescribed drugs, and less drug clearance means higher drug levels in the body.
~ Michael Greger