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Quotes About Potatoes

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
~ A.A. Milne
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
~ A.A. Milne
You'll still need leaders, and stimulus, and a world symbol." (That's the basic emptiness in us today: we haven't found a symbol. We have no myth, no dream. 'Man is the measure of all things'—well, when the measure is bigger than everything else, what good is it?) "We're still pretty small potatoes." Mandelbaum gestured at the window and the bluely glimmering sky.
~ Poul Anderson
Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
~ Rachel Bilson
This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.
~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten
He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don't know the difference between good and bad.
~ Joseph Heller
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
~ Douglas Adams
É um erro acreditar que é possível resolver qualquer problema importante usando apenas batatas.
~ Douglas Adams
t is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
~ Douglas Adams
Es un error creer que cualquier problema importante puede solucionarse con ayuda de unas patatas.
~ Douglas Adams
During all this, Mary had been extracting eyes from potatoes with such energy that they had been flying around the kitchen like hailstones. At this moment, one hit me in the eye and caused a momentary pause in the conversation.
~ Agatha Christie
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
~ Alan Watts
I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
~ Douglas Coupland
The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.
~ Michael Pollan
But I just couldn't seem to get excited about the fact that we were sorta having a date.I mean, he'd asked me to go skiing with him, and so here I was, and my heart should have been pounding. But it wasn't. I could have been going to the grocery store to pick up a bag of potatoes for all the thudding it was doing.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
A subject of much greater concern to me, however, was the great french-fry flop. I had explained to Ed MacLuckie with great pride the McDonald's secret for making french fries. I showed him how to peel the potatoes, leaving just a bit of the skin to add flavor.
~ Ray Kroc
The potatoes are peppered plenty tonight, Polly, and Chocolate milk for dinner, aren't we in clover!
~ Karen Hesse
Stalin goes to visit one of the collectives outside of Moscow," began Kolya in his joke-telling voice. "Wants to see how they're getting on with the latest Five-Year Plan. 'Tell me, comrade,' he asks one farmer. 'How did the potatoes do this year?' 'Very well, Comrade Stalin. If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.
~ David Benioff
Ah, the farmer, he kicks the first sack, 'Meow,' and so on. He kicks the second sack, and the boy inside says, 'Woof!' Pretending to be—" Kolya pointed at me to finish the sentence. "A cow." "A dog. When he kicks the third sack, the boy inside says, 'Potatoes!' " We walked in silence. "Well," said Kolya at last, "other people think it's funny." On
~ David Benioff
The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.
~ William Arthur Ward
I've supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you? I supped like the Lord in Heaven.' and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?' Nothing.
~ Jan Neruda
If I can give you one bit of advice, it's never to make your own fries. Buy frozen. Life is too short to be peeling potatoes.
~ Alexandra Potter
There are a lot of potatoes in Swedish food. They love their potatoes in all forms, they even put potato puree on their hotdogs. You can order a hot dog that has the frankfurter in it, then you have mustard or ketchup, then potato puree and deep fried crunchy onions.
~ Rachel Khoo