Lard Quotes

#1. the squares on your abdomen have been reabsorbed, like tiny islands in a rising sea of lard. - Author: Junot Diaz

#2. In short, if you are using a shovel to dig yourself into a hole, a credit card company will be happy to give you a backhoe. - Author: Jason G. Miller

#3. One thinks of lard as a kind of pure high saturated fat but it is only 41 % saturated, while it is mostly (47 %) MUFA, predominantly oleic acid, the main fat in olive oil. So it is a question of whether you think that lard is half full of SFA or half empty. - Author: Richard David Feinman

#4. It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart. - Author: Daniel Finkelstein

#5. The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications. - Author: Steven Magee

#6. A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury. - Author: Jimmy Hoffa

#7. Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough. - Author: Paul Prudhomme

#8. In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#9. Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.' Philip Larkin - Author: Philip Larkin

#10. Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard. - Author: George Luks

#11. They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. - Author: Richard Burton

#12. The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive. - Author: Daniel Yergin

#13. Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. - Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#14. Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution. - Author: Jean Nidetch

#15. I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly? - Author: Cameron Diaz

#16. Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read. - Author: Richard Branson

#17. Get off me, you lard-ass, halitosis, flea-infested horror-movie reject! (Alexion) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. I tell Esther she should ease up on lard. There's no need to mix lard in with Scottie's rice, chicken, and beans. I tell her she hasn't read the blogs. I've read the blogs. I know what Scottie should eat. - Author: Kaui Hart Hemmings

#19. Send not a Catt for Lard. - Author: George Herbert

#20. Lennie Smullenski and Anthony Zuck bake the goodies in the back room in big steel ovens and troughs of hot oil. Clouds of flour and sugar sift onto table surfaces and slip under foot. And lard is transferred daily from commercial sized vats directly to local butts. - Author: Janet Evanovich

#21. Being a disgusting, disease-carrying bug with a brain the size of a pinhead isn't something you deal with easily. It takes time to adjust to the idea. - Author: Rick Yancey

#22. We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. - Author: Ethel Waters

#23. More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. - Author: Dan Gable

#24. I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones. - Author: Lalaine

#25. (When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.) - Author: Donna Tartt

#26. The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted. - Author: Hugh MacLennan

#27. It's not what happens to you that is most important, but what happens IN you because only you determine what happens through you."

~ Keith Craft - Author: Mary Banos

#28. I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet. - Author: George Carlin

#29. Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn't be coming back to, walking and talking and cutting lard into flour and slicing fish from their spines and acting as if it were an acceptable thing, this living. - Author: Tom Franklin

#30. Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system. - Author: Keith Jarrett

#31. To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. - Author: Harry Houdini

#32. A crust of lard, habit, and cowardice envelops the soul; no matter what it craves from the depths of its prison, the lard, habit, and cowardice carry out something entirely different. - Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

#33. He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off - Author: Lev Grossman

#34. I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove. - Author: Vernon L. Smith

#35. We lost money at church bingos and ate catfish deep-fried in lard. - Author: Douglas Coupland

#36. Electra Gates would never concern herself with how much lard should be in pie dough, I thought; but then, I was not Electra Gates. I wanted pie, something that didn't seem to interest romantic heroines. - Author: Sharon Pywell

#37. The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later. - Author: Charles R. Morris

#38. In his left hand he was holding aloft the German flag; with his right he was shaking hands in smiling effusion with a bald-headed man whose face looked like a pot of lard that has boiled over and eventually congealed in white, flabby, unhealthy drifts and folds. - Author: H.E. Bates

#39. And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real. - Author: Lynda Barry