It's All Gravy Quotes

#1. It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, 'Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?' She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed.

Bob Smith

#2. I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

Hari Kondabolu

#3. The anxiety of being in Heather's stuff was stress-gravy on an already terror-filled plate.

Sarah Silverman

#4. fresh calves liver, some onions, a little gravy, and some fresh spinach.

Nancy Barone Williams

#5. I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

#6. Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

Wavy Gravy

#7. A lighthearted prayer for Thanksgiving:

May you have turkey in season
Cranberries for squeezin'
Gravy (within reason)
And leftovers worth freezin'!
Amen

by Merrill Miller of Scottdale, PA

Mary Beth Lind

#8. You're a movie star. A celebrity with millions of fans."
"And you're a wildlife ranger who traps giant, dangerous black bears for a living and acts like it's no big deal. Tell me that doesn't sound like a heaping helping of crazy, with bizarre gravy, and a slice of mashed loco for Cocoa Puffs.

Penny Reid

#9. It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About The Da Vinci Code

Stephen Fry

#10. I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

#11. There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

David Letterman

#12. I sit down on the curb, outside the Opera. People passing look at me. I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is cooled by the dull gravy of common sense once more

Donald Barthelme

#13. Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.

Wavy Gravy

#14. I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

Kathy Freston

#15. And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Wavy Gravy

#16. Babies arrived covered in blood, didn't they? Maybe dropping something tiny and helpless into the world with its own gravy was a terrible decision on the part of evolution.

Mira Grant

#17. Sure, I could of done it different ... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

Wavy Gravy

#18. If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

Patricia Clarkson

#19. It's for balance, if you want to do that. But the truth is that we all know how we're supposed to eat. And so if you have fried chicken and mashed potatoes and white gravy, then the next day you have, like a grape and you're totally evened out and you're good.

Trisha Yearwood

#20. There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn't matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.

Brad Paisley

#21. Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#22. A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.

John C. McGinley

#23. I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

Wavy Gravy

#24. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

Edward Ruscha

#25. In a seperate cloth pouch I found little bottles of shampoo and soap and a toothbrush and the like,as well as a tiny brown glass vial of perfumed oil. It smelled of violets and chocolate.
Yeah,like I needed the zombies to find me any more delicious.That'd be like a cow wearing eau de gravy.

Lia Habel

#26. I need a bone saw - for the meatloaf I made for you, which looks suspiciously like a brick. The gravy is a blanket.

Jarod Kintz

#27. You aren't what you eat - you are what you don't poop.

Wavy Gravy

#28. Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I'm a potato, I go well with gravy!

Twitter

#29. The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Wavy Gravy

#30. like gravy on a biscut it's all good.

ESPN

#31. Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

#32. We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

Wavy Gravy

#33. Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.

Christoph Fischer

#34. A thing cannot be delivered enough times:
this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands.
To loop out and come back is good all alone.
It's gravy to carry a ball or a bone.

Kay Ryan

#35. I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

Mike Weir

#36. Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

Dorothy Allison

#37. Mr. Grey will see you in a few minutes. Would you like a refreshment while you wait? Coffee, soda, tea ... ?" "Gravy," I say.

Fanny Merkin

#38. This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

James Thurber

#39. You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.

Robert Kirkman

#40. I graduated J&W in the top ninety-three percent of my class, and I would have graduated higher, but I flunked gravy. My gravy had lumps in it, and that pretty much sums up my life so far. Not that it's been all bad; more that it hasn't been entirely smooth.

Janet Evanovich

#41. Anywhere I hang my heart is home ... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

Wavy Gravy

#42. Good gravy on biscuits, girlfriend, you are in the middle of more messes than a platter of scrambled eggs. What's going on? Are the planets aligned funny? Or is that unaligned? Shoot, I have no idea. But I need to know what's going on. You and I will be going out for coffee in about thirty seconds.

Paige Shelton

#43. Revenge is a dish best served cold but Mama prefers to serve it with hot gravy, potatoes, and roast turkey.

Jonathan Dunne

#44. Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

Bobbie Ann Mason