Soup Quotes · Page 12

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

— Jack Canfield

We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.

— Tug McGraw

He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

— Freeman Patterson

When I started 'The Soup' back in 2004, I was so anxious because I can't really read, and I had to read teleprompter.

— Joel McHale

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

— Jonathan Stroud

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

— H. L. Mencken

“We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies.…

— Herman Melville

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks…

— Dylan Moran

I grew up and fell out of love with hunting, though I still appreciate the meats I grew up eating: braised rabbit,…

— Brad Leone

Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the…

— Groucho Marx

Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to…

— Tamora Pierce

I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my…

— Lindsay Wagner

There's no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We're…

— Michael Mosley

“This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what…

— Ann Hood

“What's on the menu for tomorrow?" I ask. "Celery root soup with bacon and green apple. And bean and Swiss chard." "Why…

— Christa Parrish

Eating matzo ball soup for the first time was akin to a religious experience because of how deeply contemplative it was. It…

— Melissa Leong

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.'…

— Greg Kinnear

“Broccoli and Potato Soup Serves 6 Ingredients: 2 lbs broccoli, cut into florets 2 potatoes, chopped 1 big onion, chopped 3 garlic…

— Vesela Tabakova

I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre…

— Warren MacKenzie

“Like families all over Japan, that morning we tucked into a special New Year's breakfast soup called ozoni . Although recipes vary…

— Victoria Abbott Riccardi

I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the…

— Bob Colacello

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

— Margaret Halsey

I love fish soup. Its a deeply satisfying dish. You can use almost any fish for this apart from the oily ones.

— Rick Stein

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

— Groucho Marx

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

— M. F. K. Fisher

I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a…

— Cynthia Nixon

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

— Yoko Ono

I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.

— Markus Zusak

“While you weren't looking, I flicked a booger in your soup. Just my way of saying thanks for dinner.”

— Jarod Kintz

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

— Alan Arkin

“Mashed potato is the gentile's chicken soup. It's nature's tranquilizer. I take it instead of valium.”

— Andrew Payne

“176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.”

— Richard Wright

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

— Stevie Smith

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

— Beatrice Lillie

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

— P. G. Wodehouse

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

— A. E. Wilder-Smith

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

— Joe Rogan