Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

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.

Eugene Mirman

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

It's a nice crop of apples out there. The apples are a little smaller because of the lack of rain, but maybe a little sweeter because of the warm dry weather.

It's hardly ever apples and apples when you compare No Child from state to state. We don't know why some of the states may not have to count the kids they don't test in their equation. That's the challenge with trying to make a federal law that's one size fits all and then have locally controlled schools.

It was apples and oranges. We wanted to give both films a leg up.

It's apples and oranges. The press is there to report on the General Assembly.

It's apples and oranges comparing that building to this (YMCA) building.

It's not going to do any good for the pumpkin crop this year. They're already gone, you might say. They're powerful smaller and everything. Apples? It's too late to do anything with apples this year. They have done their cycle of growing.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

Every day we serve fresh salad, bananas, oranges, apples and grapes. We serve a baked potato once a month. Green beans are often from a can due to availability.

It's one way to look at it. There are always some bad apples out there, trying to do things for personal gain.

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?

Moe Howard

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.

George Herbert

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

Jay Inslee

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Carney

It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.

Kristin Chenoweth

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

Ken Kesey

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Kristen Bell

Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots.

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.

How we did it before wasn't a fair comparison. It wasn't an apples to apples comparison.

Jakob Nielsen

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

Eric Schmidt

Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

Eric Alterman

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

Emeril Lagasse

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

Heinrich Heine

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

Heinrich Heine

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Henry Ward Beecher

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Og Mandino

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple