Top 17 Dumpling Quotes
#1. If a sweet dumpling took human form, it would look just like Aunt Tildy, right down to the flour-dusting of her gray hair.
Rae Carson
#2. Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower.
David Mitchell
#3. The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.
John Arbuthnot
#4. Dearest dumpling, one day your imagination is going to get you into trouble," whispered his mother.
He would never do that," Pecorino replied. "We're best friends.
Alan Madison
#5. Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling ...
Herman Melville
#6. And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye.
James Kelman
#7. The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.
John Arbuthnot
#8. But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
George Carlin
#9. In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
Herman Melville
#10. The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.
John M. Marzluff
#11. Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.
Richard J. Foster
#12. Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?" Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. What I see in Star Wars is the same problem that Faust gives us:
Joseph Campbell
#13. Highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent than they are.
Daniel Kahneman
#14. Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her!
John Kennedy Toole
#15. Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.
Susan Neiman
#16. Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.
Jonathan Coe
#17. She supposed a properly bred London lady would be expected to faint in shock at the sight of a shirtless gentleman, but he looked far too delicious for her to close her eyes.
Suzanne Enoch
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