Potatoes famous quotes

I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
-- Adam Garcia

#Sunday #Trying #Potatoes

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Trying #Stuff #Potatoes

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Winter #Potatoes #Chickens

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Thinking #Different #Potatoes

Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.
-- Art Donovan

#Vegetables #Potatoes #Sides

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
-- Beatrix Potter

#Shoes #Cabbage #Potatoes

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
-- Ben Aaronovitch

#East #Too Much #Potatoes

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
-- Brigham Young

#Prayer #Potatoes #Milk

I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.
-- Carey Mulligan

#Sweet #People #Potatoes

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
-- Charles Dickens

#Papa #Literature #Potatoes

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
-- Charles Dickens

#May #Potatoes #Cheese

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Might #Potatoes

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.
-- Craig Ferguson

#Christmas #Scotland #Potatoes

I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through ...
-- Djuna Barnes

#Bridges #Gaps #Potatoes

Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Beautiful #Thinking #Potatoes

One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.
-- Etienne Decroux

#Necklaces #Pearls #Potatoes

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
-- Evelyn Underhill

#Prayer #Garden #Potatoes

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
-- Frank McCourt

#Potatoes #Enough #Mashed Potatoes

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
-- Gail Porter

#Jeans #Potatoes #Attractive

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
-- Gilbert Stuart

#Peaches #Potatoes #Portraits

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
-- Grant Morrison

#Progress #Potatoes #Medical

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
-- Ilka Chase

#Rose #Tudors #Potatoes

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.
-- James Joyce

#Squares #Potatoes #Would Be

I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.
-- Janet Evanovich

#Potato Chips #Olives #Potatoes

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford
-- Jasper Fforde

#Dad #Fire #Potatoes

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Appreciation #Appreciate #Potatoes

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
-- Jim Fowler

#Desert #Potatoes #Plant

Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak
-- John Flanagan

#Horse #Potatoes #Halt

He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.
-- Josh Lanyon

#Potatoes #Potato Chips #Wells

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.
-- Julie Powell

#Simple #Potatoes #Easy

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
-- Julie Powell

#Potatoes #Hell

A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Vampire #Potato Chips #Potatoes

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
-- Lauren Child

#Potatoes #Bananas #Pretending

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.
-- Laurie Colwin

#Believe #Vegetables #Potatoes

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
-- Linda Wells

#Fashion #Shoes #Potatoes

I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.
-- Louis Tomlinson

#Girlfriend #Ham #Potatoes

For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Vegetables #Potatoes #Enough

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Memorable #Thinking #Potatoes

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.
-- Maureen Howard

#Potatoes #Common #Hindsight

The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate
-- Michelle Trachtenberg

#Interesting #Potatoes #Cheese

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
-- Nancy Mitford

#Cities #People #Potatoes

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
-- Patrick Swayze

#May #Potatoes #Hot

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
-- Paul Merton

#School #Potatoes #Firsts

If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.
-- Penny Lancaster

#Awful #Too Much #Potatoes

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
-- Rachel Maddow

#Littles #Stuff #Potatoes

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
-- Rashida Jones

#Junior High #Potatoes #Nicknames

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.
-- Rhona Mitra

#Stupid #Potatoes #Mashed Potatoes

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
-- Richard Helms

#Witty #Reality #Potatoes

I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?
-- Robin McKinley

#Food #Anxiety #Potatoes

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Potato Chips #Potatoes #Eating

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
-- Sandra Bullock

#Hands #Piano #Potatoes

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
-- Stanislaw Lem

#Curiosity #Potatoes #Natural

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
-- Stanley Donen

#Thinking #Potatoes #Meat

I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.
-- Stephen Colbert

#Potatoes #Tables #Toes

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
-- Stephen King

#Potato Chips #Potatoes #Murder

You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need.
-- T. Colin Campbell

#Needs #Potatoes #Example

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
-- Thomas Overbury

#Food #Men #Potatoes

Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.
-- Tom Lehrer

#Together #Potatoes #World

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.
-- Tom Paxton

#Peace #Special #Potatoes

I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.
-- Tre Cool

#Potatoes

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.
-- Trisha Yearwood

#Potatoes #Favorite Foods #My Favorite

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich
-- Veronica Roth

#Potatoes #Sandwiches #Mashed Potatoes

I'm pretty much a couch potato.
-- Wentworth Miller

#Potatoes #Couches

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
-- Woody Allen

#Drama #Humor #Potatoes