“ It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast. ”
- John Huston- Copy
- 3K
“ Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. ”
- Alex Levine- Copy
- 79
“ You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. ”
- Billie Holiday- Copy
- 636
“ I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, What for? I said, I'm going to buy some sugar. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 4K
“ Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250. ”
- Harper’s Index- Copy
- 643
“ As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue. ”
- Ivan Panin- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot. ”
- Johannes Trithemius- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 698
“ I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
- 3.6K
“ When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
- 2.4K
“ To be a girl is to be sweet, to be a sugar or a honey, to have dolls, to play house and be the mother. To be a girl is not to fight, but to wheedle and cajole, to manipulate behind the scenes and deviously control by being pretty and coquettish. ”
- John Money- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Relying on journalists and stock-market professionals for one's view of the internet's future is like relying on a referendum of sugared-up 11-year-olds for an assessment of the Jolly Rancher and Pokemon industries. ”
- Kurt Anderson- Copy
- 667
“ The reason it's called Grape Nuts is that it contains dextrose, which is also sometimes called grape sugar, and also because Grape Nuts is catchier, in terms of marketing, than A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel, which is what it tastes like. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence. ”
- Dan Brown- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I can either side with what I think is right as far as corruption is concerned, or I can wipe it under the rug. The nature of this job is you either make people mad as a result of events and investigations, or you make them happy by sugar-coating it and sweeping it under the rug… ”
- Ben Chandler- Copy
- 765
“ The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it. ”
- John Maxwell- Copy
- 2.4K
“ In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk… ”
- Rosie Perez- Copy
- 544
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