once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore. — Marilyn Wallace
I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes. — Jamie Oliver
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? — W. Clement Stone
If you were a bit later, I would have taken the whole fish container. — Vietnamese Proverbs
It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face. — Graham Coxon
Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? — Michael Fassbender
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. — Sally Schneider
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. — Samuel Johnson
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. — James Beard
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. — Jamie Oliver
Short Tinned Quotes
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. — L. Frank Baum
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. — Alan Bennett
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. — Tennessee Williams
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. — George Orwell
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie) — Tennessee Williams
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. — Kevin Costner
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. — Tennessee Williams
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. — Tennessee Williams
To be simple is the best thing in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm. — Thomas Beecham
Tinned Image Quotes
Canned Food Quotes
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people. — Dolores Huerta
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure — Hippocrates
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides
Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it. — John Updike
Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives. — Jamie Oliver
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. — Mitch Albom
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling. — Agnes Varda
So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else." — Brian Yorkey
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein
Tin Quotes
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best. — Leontyne Price
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. — L. Frank Baum
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. — L. Neil Smith
No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation. — John L. Lewis
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. — Ethel Waters
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other. — Aristotle Onassis
Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes. — Puff Daddy
All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. — L. Frank Baum
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line — Duke Ellington
Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner
Tin Tin Quotes
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. — David Attenborough
True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. — L. Frank Baum
I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. — L. Frank Baum
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. — Thomas E. Lawrence
You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers. — Carl F. H. Henry
Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man — L. Frank Baum
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. — George Clinton
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. — Rudyard Kipling
Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance? — Paramahansa Yogananda
Tin Cans Quotes
Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can? — Lee Wulff
My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy. — Brian Andreas
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work. — Jack Kerouac
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ? — Frank Zappa
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can,
Far above the world.
Planet Earth is blue,
And there's nothing I can do. — David Bowie
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting. — Burl Ives
Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin. — Caitlin Moran
Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. Theyre much better than eating real sausages and you dont have to contemplate half way through exactly whats inside them. ... You can have them, a bit of fried bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious. — Simon Cowell
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. — Mary Antin
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there? — Tennessee Williams
Tin Man Quotes
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. — L. Frank Baum
You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. — L. Frank Baum
There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along. — Jess Walter
A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get. — L. Frank Baum
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz. — Ali Smith
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. — Eduardo Galeano
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! — L. Frank Baum
I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless. — Marcel Dzama
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes
Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof. — Tennessee Williams
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you — Tennessee Williams
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? — Tennessee Williams
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it. — Paul Newman
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others. — Tennessee Williams
Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other. — Tennessee Williams
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can. — Tennessee Williams
I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan. — Margo Martindale
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there. — Gary Ackerman
You can always tell when someone's lying to you, because they're male. — Caroline Rhea
I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part. — Garth Brooks
I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that. — Dennis Quaid
I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy. — Sam Peckinpah
A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life. — Jean Hersey
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. — John Hersey
Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States. — Evo Morales
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. — Evelyn Waugh
Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources. — Evo Morales
Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter. — Giorgos Seferis
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. — John Hersey
When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby? — Drake
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