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This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes. — Humphrey Bogart

Shitbucket, hellfire, damnation, and son of a mother bitch, said Rosaleen, laying into each word like it was sweet potatoes on her tongue. — Sue Monk Kidd

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises. — James Beard

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes — Jim Butcher

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. — Francis Bacon

So? What are you going to do about it? Throw your mashed potatoes at me? I'm consumed by terror. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom - small potatoes that it is. — Cindy Gerard

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. — Bob Greene

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps. — Adrian Peterson

Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar. — Mark Helprin

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. — Mary J. Blige

Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes. — David Foster Wallace

Maybe, like Bibi's mashed potatoes, life has special ingredients, too - times that make it more special - stuff that gives it more zing" -Violet — Brenda Woods

The dream state just before wakening when it seems perfectly logical for the goldfish not to like peeling its own potatoes on the bus. — Kate Griffin

... two lumpy old ladies in semitransparent raincoats, like potatoes in cellophane ... — Vladimir Nabokov

potatoes off his pants. "Carbs," he moans. "I'm going to gain at least ten pounds. — Sarah Castille

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato. — Craig Ferguson

The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes. — Holly

Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness. — Saoirse Ronan

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. — Frank McCourt

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. — Rachel Maddow

Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top, — Fannie Flagg

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches. — Frank Iero

They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights. — Mary Virginia Terhune

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively. — Benjamin Percy

I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will. — Tre Cool

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. — Mignon McLaughlin

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! — Charles Dudley Warner

Napoleon was in high spirits. He dined on potatoes fried — Jack Hughes

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please. — Tom Paxton

That shooting gave me an appetite," she said. "Somebody pass
me the potatoes."
Grandma Mazur — Janet Evanovich

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes. — Stanislaw Lem

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes — Julie Powell

Biscuits are rough, potatoes are tough. I pray to God we all get enough. — Karen Cecil Smith

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place. — Brigham Young

My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread. — Rachel Sklar

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. — Douglas Adams

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes. — Alan Furst

I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals - right next to the mashed potatoes. — Sarah Palin

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. — Gilbert Stuart

A thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, a chocolate cake. — Suzanne Collins

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. — Roald Dahl

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves. — Cassandra Clare

Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them — Bryce Courtenay

Potatoes at six o'clock, Marie. Mushrooms at three. Now? — Anthony Doerr

The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature. — David Mitchell

We know," Nudge said apologetically. "It's just - she's going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top. — James Patterson

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels ... Potatoes! Bread! — Jennifer Lawrence

I don't really read the reviews - but I remember one I read a long time ago that said I had a face like a potato. — Bill Murray

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Reading is a lot like fine dining ... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal. — Carmen DeSousa

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. — Jamie Zawinski

Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her. — Bette Lee Crosby

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate. — Danny Meyer

If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is. — Peter Wisan

Forget grammar and think about potatoes — Gertrude Stein

William Carey, the great Baptist missionary, said, "Attempt great things for God and expect great things from God. — Angus Buchan

It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes. — G.A. Aiken

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes. — Rhona Mitra

Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes. — Opal Whiteley

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. — Dorothy Malone

Lima beans, watermelons, potatoes, eggplants, and cabbages are among the many other familiar crops whose wild ancestors were bitter or poisonous, and — Jared Diamond

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head. — Augustus Hare

They tried to roast hazel nuts in the oven and prepare a Christmas meal out of canned ham, two potatoes, and some suspicious looking bread. — Jack Lewis Baillot

I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream! — Tove Jansson

Marriage is the cold potato of love. — Myrtle Reed

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. — Linda Wells

A fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
And five nose running brats in love with Batman — Gregory Corso

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes. — Richard P. Feynman

Are you going to eat me in my sleep?"
"Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato? — Rain Oxford

We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc. — Bo Burnham

The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility. — Angus Buchan

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. — Sandra Bullock

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have. — Richard Cobden

One acre of land can produce either 20,000 pounds of potatoes or a measly 165 pounds of meat. — Lindsay S. Nixon

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — Alan W. Watts

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. — Louisa May Alcott

May there be no frost on your potatoes, nor worms in your cabbage. — Emma Donoghue

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours. — Denis Hayes

There are no elegant potatoes. — Kathleen Tessaro

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips ... no Congress can make just one. — Jon Stewart

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato. — Laurie Colwin

I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta. — Emma Roberts

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer. — Glenn Martinez

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes. — Maureen Howard

Whether it's a potato or a nut, it's a foodage! — Karl Pilkington

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. — J.K. Rowling

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem. — Ilka Chase

I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see. — Bill Callahan

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes. — Thom Yorke

seemed like small potatoes. — Lemony Snicket

Men are not potatoes! — Robert A. Heinlein

This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. — Luigi Barzini

I still don't have a turkey, Mason. It slid across the floor of the Piggly Wiggly and knocked over a tower of canned sweet potatoes. — Denise Grover Swank

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be. — Ray Stannard Baker

If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater. — Steve Coogan

Lisette set out browned chicken, warm butternut squash salad, blue potatoes, and blackberry bread with a crust of sugar that looked like ice crystals. — Sarah Addison Allen