Turnips Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
— Richard Burton
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[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
— Alain Ducasse
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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
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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
— Mark Twain
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I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!
— Dominic Cooper
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I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice,…
— Erik Satie
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I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
— Billy Bob Thornton
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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has
— Mark Twain
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There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
— Frederick Marryat
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The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
— Waverley Root
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through…
— Edward Gorey
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To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
— Saadi
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I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.
— Julia Child
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Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel…
— Sherwood Anderson
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Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A…
— Lloyd Alexander
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It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by…
— George Orwell
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If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at…
— C.S. Lewis
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What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
— Henry Miller
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