Leftover Quotes

#1. Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which eventually become orbiting rocky planets. And voila: a solar system!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong; it is not more than a leftover patchwork of disparate kingdoms created by the British.

Chetan Bhagat

#3. Yes, you are right! I am your leftover trash. I hope you know a bum got to eat too. I believe you were one when I met you.

Touaxia Vang

#4. Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. these leftover memories

Tom Perrotta

#6. Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

David Eagleman

#7. Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#8. The fairy tale was back on. Prince returned, bad spell broken. I wasn't sure exactly what to do about the leftover, unresolved character. Where was his happily ever after?

Stephenie Meyer

#9. But he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in his chest, leaving stone shrapnel in a black, empty place that felt nothing.Just a yawning void of nothing.And he liked it that way ...

Charlotte Featherstone

#10. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Johnny Carson

#11. I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

Rachel Dratch

#12. Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

Chris Shiflett

#13. We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.

Josh Tickell

#14. Hey, if you decided to tear up the town, you can always use the leftover bread from my breakfast in place of your cane. I'm pretty sure it's hard enough to bust heads.

Jennifer Rardin

#15. Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

Young-Ha Kim

#16. When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Buzz Aldrin

#17. The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don't get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

Joel Osteen

#18. I reminded myself of a leftover piece of meat that was starting to spoil.

Barbara Honigmann

#19. My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends.

Walter Dean Myers

#20. When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

S.M. Stevens

#21. Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes.

Holly Black

#22. That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#23. I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.

Anna Chancellor

#24. For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

David Dunn

#25. Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts.

C. K. Williams

#26. Dinner is leftover spaghetti, with meat sauce, warmed up in the microwave. I eat spaghetti nine times a week, every week, and it is my favorite food. And yet, tonight, I wonder if I'm in a rut.

Craig Lancaster

#27. Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.
"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.

Libba Bray

#28. Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.

Wendy Mass

#29. My father always made an amazing meatloaf, and I've inherited his skill. Leftover meatloaf in a sandwich? Come on!

Elizabeth Banks

#30. I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

Jesse Eisenberg

#31. It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

Susanna Clarke

#32. I do have some leftover chicken and pasta. (Grace)
And wine? ... That's acceptable (Julian)
Look, buster, I'm not your cooking wench. Mess with me and I'll feed you Alpo. (Grace)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. There were no leftover feelings for him, but seeing someone toss Alex around like a Frisbee made me slightly ill. Possibly because in the back of my head, I wanted to be the one doing it.

Jus Accardo

#34. I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Amy Bloom

#35. On the off chance my caller would tell me to quit drinking, I positioned myself on the sofa with two six-packs and a bottle of nice scotch. Then I turned on the TV and ate a sandwich made from leftover chicken lo mein. I call it a Chanwich.

David Sedaris

#36. I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me," she said.

Janet Evanovich

#37. Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

Haruki Murakami

#38. The heap of dirty dishes was normal for Arthur, who had applied for a reduction in his water rate on the grounds that he washed up only every fortnight, and then used the leftover liquid for watering his roses.

Julian Barnes

#39. the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so that it appears as an important event in the city scene, a positive feature, rather than a no-account leftover.

Jane Jacobs

#40. Grams calls them "worry crumbs" those leftover bits of an uncomfortable idea. She fixes worry crumbs with sayings and she has one to fit almost any size mess or confusion.

Blue Balliett

#41. Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent's past, there's leftover booze and contraceptives.

Bauvard

#42. Hey - with your metal leg and half a brain, and my four leftover senses, we almost make a whole person.

Marie Lu

#43. I hope this scene isn't playing out all over the nation. People like me struggling to grab what they can. Whole families, even. Grasping at the leftover shards of their lives.

Daniel H. Wilson

#44. Those who love themselves too much
have very little love leftover for others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. Living with myself wasn't all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except the leftover face cream from the night before.

Brenda Perlin

#46. There was nothing physical she could do to stop Mario from carrying out whatever he wished. She shivered at the thought of what that sleazy, other world leftover might do should she launch an attack on him.

G.G. Collins

#47. What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?

Maggie O'Farrell

#48. All she wanted now was to eat her leftover pasta and curl up with a good book. She needed to escape to a different world because she wasn't overly fond of the one she was living in now.

Lily Harper Hart

#49. But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.

Joely Fisher

#50. My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto.

Cote De Pablo

#51. Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.

Richard Blackaby

#52. I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

John Cheever

#53. The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#54. Once they've borne children, mothers can construct virtually any costume using scissors, felt, Elmer's glue, and a leftover pen spring. They're like the Special Forces of crafts.

Drew Magary

#55. They went through the fridge tucked in the bathroom. Blue selected a soda. Noah took a plastic spoon. He chewed on it as Blue fed Chainsaw a leftover hamburger.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.

Julia Child

#57. He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

Ted Hughes

#58. I'm a leftover junkie.

Kris Carr

#59. On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

Amy Sedaris

#60. By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if we value freedom, there's only one conclusion. It's time to get rid of this leftover relic we call Government.

Max Barry

#61. The fantasy comes from that, and from a culture that eroticizes violence against women, and leftover puritanical guilt about sex that tells us we're not allowed to choose it and want it for ourselves, and from God only knows where else.

Lilah Pace

#62. I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.

Deborah Moggach

#63. I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.

Kyle MacLachlan

#64. I'd rather have leftover pizza than leftover feelings.

Sarah Burgess

#65. I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

Ion Tiriac

#66. At the Redbox we gather essential movies:
Johnny Depp, Jude Law,
Michael Cera, and Jon Heder
(because we all have a weak spot
for the skinny, homely, Leftover,
Napoleon Dynamites of the world).

Sarah Tregay

#67. Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

Barbara Johnson

#68. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

Dave Willis

#69. Marina filled her lungs with frozen air and smelled both winter and spring, dirt and leftover snow with the smallest undercurrent of something green.

Ann Patchett

#70. I think Lucy Ferry, now Birley, is absolutely beautiful. She's a modern girl, but she moves beautifully. Amanda [Harlech] moves beautifully when she's not working. All those English leftover society girls.

Manolo Blahnik

#71. He nodded. "You're right. It's probably for the best."
Bitterness rose in my throat. I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

Mary E. Pearson

#72. It shocked me, the strength of the image, the desire I had to see if it might happen this way- though I couldn't tell if it was really desire in the present or leftover from the past.

Kim Edwards

#73. I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.

Elie Tahari

#74. With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.

Mercedes McCambridge

#75. I think I have some leftover pizza from when you were last here."
"That was two weeks ago."
"You think it's gone off?"
"I think it's walked off.

Derek Landy