Potato Quotes

#1. Putting the brakes on is not an easy thing for a vamp to do. It's kind of like a shark trying to stop a feeding frenzy, or that old potato chip slogan: "Bet you can't eat just one.

Jim Grayson

#2. A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

Henry S. F. Cooper

#3. Mashed potato is the gentile's chicken soup. It's nature's tranquilizer. I take it instead of valium.

Andrew Payne

#4. The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh ... Steve?

Ann Coulter

#5. The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

Russell Baker

#6. While we're at it, why don't we add a third emotion to this list: lust. You are probably unaware that Linnaeus lumped the tomato into the same genus as the potato, a food with a reputation for its widespread availability and easy satisfaction of oral needs.

Benson Bruno

#7. We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

Richard Schiff

#8. They were all watching me with open concern and curiosity; the only sound breaking the silence was Sandra munching on potato chips. "I'm

Penny Reid

#9. I started the day with a potato. I washed it down with some Martian coffee. That's my name for "hot water with a caffeine pill dissolved in it." I ran out of real coffee months ago.

Andy Weir

#10. And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio ...

Daniel Handler

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

Ion Tiriac

#12. You're serious?"
"As a heart attack."
I set my bag down and leaned on the counter. Okay, Hunter Zaccadelli, you could make me dinner.
"Stuffed French toast, sweet potato hash and strawberries and cream."
"Breakfast for dinner? You rebel, you.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#13. My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

Jacob Dalton

#14. I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

Adam Garcia

#15. But happiness is not a potato.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. All law must be subjective; the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it; it does not know whether it is making a tomato or a potato ... It knows how to create without knowing what It creates.

Ernest Holmes

#17. How often when they find a sage
As sweet as Socrates or Plato
They hand him hemlock for his wage
Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View

Don Marquis

#18. My grandfather had a wonderful funeral ... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

Woody Allen

#19. This is, like, the biggest thing to happen in our town since that girl found a potato that looked like Mother Teresa.

John M. Cusick

#20. These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

Glenn Martinez

#21. I'm certain I taste like a boiled potato," she declared. He

Grace Draven

#22. Don't tell me you're going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich

Veronica Roth

#23. Telling one lie begets another lie that begets another lie and before you know it that lie has grandkids, great grandkids and keeps growing. It's like Lay's Potato Chips, you can't tell just one!

Sanjo Jendayi

#24. I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The less said about that the better.

Andy Weir

#25. Nothing is more American than stuffing your face with loaded potato skins while drinking loaded mudslides.

Chelsea Handler

#26. Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Alan Bennett

#27. A hamster is basically just a warm potato with fur.

R.J. Palacio

#28. Sweet potato fries

Jamie McGuire

#29. Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.

Robert Fogel

#30. Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato

The Notorious B.I.G.

#31. Now God refused to come down to earth in the form of potato-flour; that was an undeniable, indisputable fact.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#32. Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

#33. Pinto bean & spiralized sweet potato quesadilla

Tami Hardeman

#34. We came out with a rice and a corn chip, then quickly decided we needed to focus on potato. It was just too much for consumers to figure out at once.

Keith Belling

#35. I like her in my shirt and think she could wear a potato sack and still look dead sexy. But I keep that detail to myself because sometimes the truth is a kamikaze mission: there's no coming back from it.

Autumn Doughton

#36. You say potato; I say potahto ... '
'I say integrity; you say deceit.

Melissa Marr

#37. I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

Jill Scott

#38. We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie and lots of gravy. Most players love it, but we also have a baked catfish for players who are still looking to stay on the approved diet.

Mark Farner

#39. Audrey used to pass her some of her story books, but Gayle was no reader, not much or a homemaker neither, though Betty did try giving her a few lessons. I reckon Gayle lived on potato chips and Dr Pepper, and when Okey was home, they just lived on love.

Laurie Graham

#40. The greatest biodiversity of an species is typically found in the place where it first evolved
where nature first experimented white all the possibilities what an apple, or a potato or peach, could be.

Michael Pollan

#41. You were right. I can't be trusted around people." "What does that make me? A stuffed potato?

Dannielle Wicks

#42. Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills ...

Frank Chin

#43. The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

Vincent Van Gogh

#44. Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

Paul Quarrington

#45. The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

George Carlin

#46. Don't be a baked potato. Be a person.

The Oatmeal

#47. I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

Padgett Powell

#48. I love you like a couch potato loves his remote. - Brody Madden

Kate McCarthy

#49. And what would you like, Sharie?" asked Miss Mush.
"What do you have?" asked Sharie.
"Potato salad".
"What else is there?" asked Sharie.
"Nothing" said Miss Mush.
"Okay" said Sharie. "I'll have that."
"Potato salad?" asked Miss Mush.
"No,nothing." said Sharie.

Louis Sachar

#50. Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

Lee Daniels

#51. What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

Gilbert Stuart

#52. If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.

Penny Lancaster

#53. Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.

Judith Martin

#54. In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

Leon Askin

#55. To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

Karl Malone

#56. There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Charles Dudley Warner

#57. It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

Dian Fossey

#58. I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

Paloma Faith

#59. It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

Fred Melamed

#60. It was not until very much in the posterior that I understanded that each of us was laughing for a different reason, for our own reason, and that not on of those reasons had a thing to do with the potato.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#61. Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

Mos Def

#62. So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#63. When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

Doris Roberts

#64. [Karen:] You need to watch more TV.
[Rylie:] My dear mother would roll over in her grave.
[Karen:] Your mother lives in Palm Beach.
[Rylie:] Potato, potahto.

Jessica Lave

#65. Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.

Charles Dickens

#66. But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored of the tenets of not only fascism but also of Adolf Hitler himself. And you know, that was treading on a lot of toes.

Jacqueline Winspear

#67. All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

Sara Paretsky

#68. She pulled the hood over the girl's ears and fastened it tight. Biterblue looked like a potato sack, a small, shivering potato sack with empty eyes and a knife.

Kristin Cashore

#69. If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato

Terry Pratchett

#70. Marriage is the cold potato of love.

Myrtle Reed

#71. Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#72. My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

Taylor Swift

#73. You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes.

Josh Lanyon

#74. I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.

Stephen Colbert

#75. He tugged on an imaginary rope,somewhere on the level of his ear, and then jerked his neck to one side, tongue protruding, eyes bulging. As quick pantomimes went, it was disturbing. And then he let go of the rope and smiled his familiar grin.
Would you like some potato salad?

Neil Gaiman

#76. FOR MOST OF MY LIFE I couldn't have found Idaho on a map. I had no picture of the place in my mind, nothing like a California beach or a Texas oil field. Potato trees, is what I thought on the drive out. Rows

Shawn Vestal

#77. In other news, It's seven sols till the harvest, and I still haven't prepared. For starters, I need to make a hoe. Also, I need to make an outdoor shed for the potatoes. I can't just pile them up outside. The next major storm would cause The Great Martian Potato Migration.

Andy Weir

#78. Four different kinds of Tater Tots?" I felt overwhelmed by culinary confusion. "Why would anyone need so many? Chili. Sweet potato. Blue?

Rick Riordan

#79. I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#80. I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

Ariel Pink

#81. Rub a half potato on your wart
and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close
your eyes and whirl three times and throw.
Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.

Richard Hugo

#82. Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

Boman Irani

#83. Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

William Tyler

#84. You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#85. I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

Chandra Wilson

#86. She pokes at a very wrinkled baked potato that somehow reminds me of Alan Greenspan.

Nic Tatano

#87. I quickly tried to do the math but my brain was a jumbled mess and I couldn't remember what number comes after potato!

Tara Sivec

#88. Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Jim Fowler

#89. He had a face roughly the shape and color of a clumsily peeled Idaho potato, and he had a jaw like the end of a cigarette carton.

David Markson

#90. Aaah, 'at's be'er,' said Ron, with his mouth full of mashed potato.

J.K. Rowling

#91. I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.

Janet Evanovich

#92. To be, or not to be ... a potato

Me

#93. It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

Lady Gregory

#94. There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

Edward Norton

#95. I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

Phil Hartman

#96. If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

Bill Bryson

#97. Lord, I can't live in his mashed potato world. I need my tubers scalloped and diced and baked and fried and different every time. I need excitement and change as much as I need air.

Lorna Seilstad

#98. I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#99. No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

Edwidge Danticat

#100. A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

Ralph Merkle