Chocolate Teapot Quotes

#1. He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

Nick Hornby

#2. I suppose I've been working for a long time, so I've seen all kinds of filmmaking. I can fit into anything, and it doesn't feel that weird or that fascinating.

Elijah Wood

#3. If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Jean Cocteau

#5. We are so achievement-oriented that we often surge right by the true value of relating to what's before us, because we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

Mark Nepo

#6. Jimmy: You'll end up like one of those chocolate merengues my wife is so fond of [Alison starts banging jars] ... sweet and sticky on the outside, and sink your teeth in it [savouring every word]-inside, all white, messy and disgusting. [offering teapot sweetly to Helena] Milk?

John Osborne

#7. But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.

Adam Smith

#8. I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

Peg Bracken

#9. Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again.

Janet Fitch

#10. Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell.

Marty Rubin

#11. The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

Frederick Lenz

#12. She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

Jerry Reed