Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Child

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

Kristin Chenoweth

Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

Tom Anderson

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

Sherwood Anderson

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Sherwood Anderson

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

Melissa Etheridge

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

Michio Kaku

Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.

Margaret Millar

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Mary J. Blige

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

Lauren Weisberger

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

Oscar Wilde

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Michael Pollan

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

Michael Pollan

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Scott Foley

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

Scott Erickson

Apple controls the licensing. It's their trademark.

Gwen Moore

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Jane Porter

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

Cassandra Clare

Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

Oren Peli

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

Gianfranco Zola

I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

Jakob Nielsen

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

Fulton J. Sheen

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Henry David Thoreau

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.

Henry David Thoreau

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Henry David Thoreau

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Jeremy Bulloch

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

Groucho Marx

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

George R. R. Martin

The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

Gail Simmons

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

George Will

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Jeffrey Jones

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Gary Hamel

Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.