Chilies Quotes

#1. You can't be a revolutionary if you don't eat chilies.

Mao Tse-tung

#2. Intensely craving a salad of green papaya with bird chilies that tore your mouth apart, that burned your lips, set fire to your heart.

Kim Thuy

#3. When you're in Portuguese-African Brazil, or Lisbon, or Mozambique, sometimes piri piri is used as a condiment. Sometimes piri piri is just spices from a jar, and sometimes it's made with garlic, olive oil, cilantro, parsley, and some light chilies.

Marcus Samuelsson

#4. My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#5. Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

Raymond Sokolov

#6. I landed in 1980 in Bangkok, and I stopped to eat ten times between the airport and the hotel. It was all lemongrass and ginger and chilies.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#7. Take me," Catti-brie implored.

R.A. Salvatore

#8. Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature's services in a world of close to 7 billion people

Achim Steiner

#9. When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Bill Burr

#10. The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

Gunnar Myrdal

#11. If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

Tisha Venturini

#12. A closed heart is the most self limiting factor in life. Start to listen to your heartfelt desires.

Steven Redhead

#13. Obviously I was mistaken.

Anna Quindlen

#14. What's inside you no one can touch.

Elena Gorokhova

#15. The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

Martin Luther

#16. You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

Bill Watterson

#17. Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.

George Vecsey

#18. What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

Dale Spender