Jonathan Swift Quotes

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

Jonathan Swift

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• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• What's a soup kitchen?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Kitchen
  • Soup

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Real
  • Week
  • Soup

• I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Small
  • Me
  • Ideas

• After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were like, 'How rock n' roll are we? Celebrating the first video with chicken soup.'

  

  Fleur East
  • Rock
  • Sister
  • Soup

• Miso makes a soup loaded with flavour that saves you the hassle of making stock.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Stock
  • Soup

• Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Different
  • Black
  • Doubt

• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  

  Vanna White
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Soup

• The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

  

  Clive James
  • Stone
  • Soup
  • Morphogenesis

• You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Book
  • Hand
  • Humans

• He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Example

• It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

  

  Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Evolution

• But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

  

  Edwin Booth
  • She
  • Nature
  • Play

• An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Soldier
  • Soup

• I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Exist
  • Soup
  • Vice versa

• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Doubt
  • Sea
  • Wind

• If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Practice
  • Teaching
  • Taste

• My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • School
  • Feeling
  • Reading

• It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Life
  • Good
  • My Life

• He comes across as alarmingly unpredictable, leaping out at unsuspecting passers-by and startling them with a moral challenge.

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • Challenge

• I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the things white people have accomplished throughout history, I smile, and I nod, and I think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm glad I'm on that team.'

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • History

• I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Accept
  • States

• If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Soup
  • Falls
  • French Taste