Quotes About An Artichoke

#1. He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an 'artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf

Christopher Clark

#2. My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Katy Perry

#3. I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

Chris Cosentino

#4. He has 'le coeur comme un artichaud'. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' 'Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.

Poppy Z. Brite

#5. But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen's clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as our
game plan ever was - to make food that tasted good.

Bjorn Shen

#6. I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

Gary Speed

#7. Salad of baby spinach, artichoke hearts, and slices of fig, drizzled with olive oil and salt and a little fresh lemon juice,

Adriana Trigiani

#8. It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

Lewis Carroll

#9. In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you're highlighting this astounding artichoke, it's got to be an astounding artichoke.

Michael Pollan

#10. What does waiting do? None of us are promised a tomorrow ... We don't always get a later." He kissed my temple again, then pulled back, his eyes finding mine. "I'm done living like we do.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it's also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed.

Bjorn Shen

#13. What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.

Melonie Diaz

#14. For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Garth Nix

#15. After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a deceptive plausibility.

John D. MacDonald

#16. My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

A. J. Jacobs

#17. I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#18. Heat prickled my cheeks. My palms went clammy. Love is a lot like food poisoning.

Suzanne Supplee

#19. Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls.

Suzanne Supplee

#20. But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

Emily Dickinson

#21. I was in this on my own - it was make it or break it.

Bjorn Shen

#22. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57

Orit Badouk Epstein

#23. I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.

Kevin McCarthy

#24. You must make the Journey along the road, nobody is able to do it for you!

Frank M. Wanderer