Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

Bill Bryson

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

Neville Crichton

I would be surprised if we and Wild Oats were not in sight of each other all the way, unfortunately.

Bill Bryson

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

George Carlin

Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up.

Horace

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

Libba Bray

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

Steve Martin

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Stephanie Zimbalist

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Willy Wonka

Uh, Little Boy, my chocolate must be untouched by human hands!

Lauren Bowles

I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you! I love having a good piece of dark chocolate, one that's 70 percent or more cacao.

Diane Ackerman

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Daniel Handler

Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

Mariska Hargitay

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Cara Castronuova

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

Cam Gigandet

Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

Joan Greenwood

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

Elizabeth Scott

The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t.