Hill Of Beans Quotes & Sayings

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises. — Steve Wynn

Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you ... Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now ... here's looking at you kid. — Humphrey Bogart

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible. — Pete Seeger

I like to tease a bit, if he'll let me, with the owners' son, two, whose name happens to be Chandler, and who himself likes to play in the big bins of nails.

And so, forgetting myself, thank God: Hullo. Hullo, short and relatively new. Welcome again to the land of the living, to time, this hill of beans. Chandler will have, as usual, none of it. He keeps his mysterious counsel. — Annie Dillard

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game. — John McGraw

Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When we'd had slaves, we'd purchased people's labor - not their bodies! We never thought we owned someone's arms, legs, feet, heart. How was that possible? How much does an arm cost? A leg? Feet? Hands? How — Daniel Black

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans. — Rich Mullins

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts. — Lois Greiman

People say you shouldn't marry for looks but I disagree: if I tot up all the pleasure I got from looking at David over the years I'd say it amounted to a very substantial hill of beans. — Lynn Barber

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power! — Chuck Baldwin

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. — Craig Ferguson

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. — Stephen R. Covey

I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. — Rick Blaine

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage — Dennis Prager

Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What -"
"Hell-Knows-Where."
"Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say. — Stephen Baxter

As we leave the theater, we are absolutely convinced that the only thing keeping the world from going crazy is that the problems of three little people do, after all, amount to more than a hill of beans. — Roger Ebert

Women. They carried the whole world, one way or another, and they still felt like they weren't worth a hill of beans unless they got paid for their troubles. And troubles they had plenty of. — Stephanie Mittman

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me. — Douglas Coupland