Spoons Quotes
178 quotes by 163 authors
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
— Nicholson Baker
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The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and…
— Alexander Pope
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He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with…
— Jacques Prevert
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He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to…
— Celia Thaxter
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My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.
— Kris Carr
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
— Christopher Meloni
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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself…
— Agatha Christie
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What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things…
— George Johnson
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a…
— Dalai Lama
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
— Van Morrison
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Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after…
— Ian Kiernan
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If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything…
— Henry Beston
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it…
— Uri Geller
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I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto…
— Tobe Hooper
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I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of…
— Denis Leary
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Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of…
— Maggie O'Farrell
Who Wrote These Spoons Quotes
163 authors contributed a total of 178 Spoons Quotes, led by these top contributors: