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Quotes About Olive

Extra-dirty vodka Martinis - they're so easy to drink! I should really just drink olive juice; it'd be safer.
~ Cecily Strong
His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He
~ Jonathan Swift
beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.
~ Jonathan Swift
I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.
~ Audrina Patridge
Hancock: I was talking about Olive, my sweetheart. Sid : And a load of old rubbish it was too. Hancock: Oh well of course, I wouldn't expect you to understand. How could a man like you hope to understand the sensitive world of two children who discover the wonders of innocent love for the first time. Sid: 'Innocent love'. If I'd been your old man I'd have given you a thump round the earhole and kicked you up to bed. Hancock: I don't think I've such a crude man in my life.
~ Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
It was a desolate landscape in which even the sparse olive trees looked ancient, skinny and thirsty.
~ David Archer
One pillar of my cooking is that salad dressing is sacred and that you always make it with the most delicious oil you can find. Usually, that means extra-virgin olive oil.
~ Samin Nosrat
Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, I'm thinking about getting married. Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.
~ Julia Quinn
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love
~ Leonard Cohen
Lucques and Picholine olives,
~ David Lebovitz
The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.' He does not always come away unscathed from his page, but like the poor, he knows how to make use of an olive's eternity.
~ Rene Char
They chose the olive They must really like olives Forget it Now if she invented pizza that i can understand -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif
~ Rick Riordan
Olive was in the habit of saying "honestly" so often that even a child could see that she must be deceitful. I marveled at her mother's prescience in having named her daughter after a green—with envy—cocktail garnish: hollow and bitter.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Una sombra en el manantial. Hielo en el barril. La hija del herrero con los pies empapados. Encima de la mesa, el pan y la aceituna, en el emparrado, el candil de la aurora, y allá en lo alto, girando en su espetón, la galaxia se perfuma con la grasa chamuscada, el ajo y la pimienta.
~ Yannis Ritsos
Regular users of butter had no significant change in their risk for dementia or Alzheimer's, but people who regularly consumed omega-3-rich oils, such as olive, flaxseed, and walnut
~ David Perlmutter
I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.
~ Nicole Richie
After several moments of hesitation, Olive nodded and stepped off the porch. Sydney understood my cautious approach and quietly kept her distance. Rose, on the other hand, clearly wanted to come with Olive and me, but I gave her a quick shake of the head. Dimitri rested his hand on her arm to emphasize the point.
~ Richelle Mead
No olive?" I said. "Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini
~ Robert B. Parker
No olive?" I said. "Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini," Cosgrove said.
~ Robert B. Parker
white villas glittered against the olive woods! What quiet harbours, thronged with gallant shipping bound for purple islands of wine and spice, islands set low in languorous waters!
~ Kenneth Grahame
What do you write in those forms?" I asked. "Nothing. I just do this to look threatening," I watched him scribble, and I made out his tiny drawing of a martini glass, with olive. It wasn't often that I got to study him like this, concentrating, in full light. He gently bit his soft bottom lip. .... "You're sexy when you threaten people.
~ Jennifer Echols
When writers come here they walk about smelling everything because New Orleans is, above all, a town where the heady scent of jasmine or sweet olive mingles with the cloying stink of sugar refineries and the musky mud smell of the Mississippi. It's an intoxicating brew of rotting and generating, a feeling of death and life simultaneously occurring and inextricably linked.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Her complexion was a rich and mantling olive, and when watching the glow upon her cheeks I could almost swear that beneath the transparent medium there lurked the blushes of a faint vermilion.
~ Andrew Delbanco
If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.
~ Alain Ducasse