Turnips Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. — Richard Burton
[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
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse
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
....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard. — Mark Twain
I look like a turnip with hair in the morning! — Dominic Cooper
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
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. — Billy Bob Thornton
In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has — Mark Twain
There's no getting blood out of a turnip. — Frederick Marryat
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root
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
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl. — Saadi
I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips. — Julia Child
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
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
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
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
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
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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