Pimento Quotes & Sayings

THE BILL FOR DARRELL BOB HOUSTON THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The onion has as many pages as War and Peace, every one of which is poignant enough to make a strong man weep, but the various ivory parchments of the onion and the stinging green bookmark of the onion are quickly charred by belly juices and bowel bacteria. Only the beet departs the body the same color as it went in. Beets consumed at dinner will, come morning, stock a toilet bowl with crimson fish, their hue attesting to beet's chromatic immunity to the powerful digestive acids and thoroughgoing microbes that can turn the reddest pimento, the orangest carrot, the yellowest squash into a single disgusting shade of brown. — Tom Robbins

He had escaped a thunderbolt, but he was still under a cloud. — G.K. Chesterton

Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and. — Gloria Steinem

There is more to life than I imagine — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don't necessarily preach. — Kenna

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

I still don't know if it's worth living in a world with no more donuts. — Peter Clines

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters. — Andy Garcia

I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook. — Janeane Garofalo

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go. — Deepak Chopra

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse. — Mary Roach

Married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. I have my own fossils, — Tracy Chevalier

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. — Mark Van Doren

Blair ... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Tradition is for the weak. — Winter Renshaw

Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest." His — John C. Wright