Top 100 Quotes About Beans
#1. There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.
Jon Richardson
#2. The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the molecules of the brain once it has been turned into homogeneous and assimilable substances, which potentially have the "same nature", as the molecules of the brain
Antonio Gramsci
#3. In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.
John McGraw
#4. I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
Ryan Lochte
#5. TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.
Hedda Hopper
#6. I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.
Eric Andre
#7. They're walking around in clothing but they're still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.
Rita Mae Brown
#8. Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If she can freeze his account, he can freeze hers.
Mary Amato
#9. You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.
Tom Robbins
#10. Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil
Frank Sinatra
#11. Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!
Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.
Aristophanes
#12. Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.
Robert Gottlieb
#13. Here they are: Power Proteins Super Starches Chicken breast Oats Tuna (chunk light, canned in water) Brown rice Black beans Corn Prime Produce - Veggies Fit Fats Carrots Avocado Tomatoes Sunflower seeds Mushrooms Cashews Prime Produce-Fruits Blueberries Oranges Grapes
Phillip C. McGraw
#14. Miriva refused to believe that human decency should be a privilege given only to a small few, and when she complained to her mother that she did not want to be a broodmare for the sake of alliances between the villages, her mother slapped her and sent her to the fields to pick mehazi beans
Ash Gray
#15. I'm a bean counter. Oh, I'm not an accountant, but I did spill pinto beans on the counter.
Jarod Kintz
#16. There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.
Will Rogers
#17. What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.
J.K. Rowling
#18. Coffee beans are at their peak flavor for fourteen days from the roaster. Beyond that, they should be stored consistently below 0C/32F, ideally near the temperature where Walt Disney is kept.
Kevin Sinnott
#19. Bean Throwing Day (Japan): Usually February 3 or q,. A day to toss away your bad luck and welcome good fortune. Try making a bean salad, then plant at least one of the beans in the earth near your home for providence all year.
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Patricia J. Telesco
#20. A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
Thomas Harris
#21. When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.
Alicia Sixtos
#22. The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.
Andrea Illy
#23. If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.
Martial
#24. The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
Jeff Greenfield
#25. If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not.
Tom Kerridge
#26. It is better to avail oneself of the old bean than to spill the beans.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#27. Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .
Cole Porter
#28. Satchmo was raised on steaming pots of red beans and rice, a meal so familiar that he described it as his "birthmark" - indeed, in adulthood, he often signed off letters with "Red beans and ricely yours.
Fiona Ross
#29. Mind telling me what's so funny?" he asked as he spooned beans onto their plates. "Nothing." Lorelai avoided looking at Kol. "Then if nothing is funny, you two can stop grinning at each other like village idiots and start eating your dinner. I imagine tomorrow will be another difficult day." And
C.J. Redwine
#30. I like to think coffee comes from beans; therefore, it's a vegetable.
Jim Gaffigan
#31. Stop stalling and spill the beans. What's up?"
Alexi tossed down her fork and leaned in close so no one else could possibly hear. "What's not up? We're like rabbits on Viagra.
Jennifer Saints
#32. Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum and Fizzing Whizzbees. There
J.K. Rowling
#33. You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.
John Lennon
#34. Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed,
Henry David Thoreau
#35. What do soy beans and vibrators have in common? They're both meat substitutes.
Supervert
#36. In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.
Rick Bayless
#37. My roommates and I looked at each other and screamed, "BEANS!" in unison, like we hadn't eaten in weeks.We were holding hands, jumping up and down and celebrating, while the guy at the register tried to understand how we functioned on a normal basis.
Grace Helbig
#38. Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
Roald Dahl
#40. Wally, stop playing with your beans."
Mom is participating in a nightly ritual that never changes. Tonight, The Turd's picking up lima beans, sniffing each one, and burying it in his mashed potatoes.
"I'm not playing with them," he says, matter-of-factly. "I'm checking them for fleas.
Huston Piner
#41. I'm Hispanic - don't mess around with my coffee. Leave my beans alone.
Liz Torres
#42. The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
Bill Hicks
#43. Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
Alex Kapranos
#44. For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!
Bill Watterson
#45. I love chicken and anything to do with chicken. I love anything that's homemade. Oh, and BBQ. And I love green beans. There is so much good food. I can go on and on and on.
Phillip Phillips
#46. Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!
Terry Pratchett
#47. I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my customers, so they may enjoy coffee at its peak of flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious and responsibly sourced beans.
James Freeman
#48. I know I shouldn't feel guilty for being angry sometimes, or bitter" "Knowing something is beans.
Megan Hart
#49. It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
Muriel Barbery
#50. For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
William Banting
#51. A good analogy to understand the difference between bandwidth and speed is the following example: a fast sports-car can get one bag of coffee beans to a coffee shop in a city miles away much faster than a truck. The truck however can get a ton of coffee beans much faster than the sports car.
Albert Witteveen
#52. Daughter, "Daddy, do rice and beans really make you grow big and strong?"
Dad, "Yes."
Daughter,"Are you sure?"
Dad,"Yes."
Daughter, "Then why are you so short?
Peter Rogers
#53. I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.
John Betjeman
#54. The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.
Joel Fuhrman
#55. You cannot have chocolate without cacao. The cacao bean is chocolate. All chocolate contains at least some ground up cacao beans.
David Wolfe
#56. The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#57. Curvy people float better than lean beans, and women more than men, because even at our slimmest, we have an extra layer of fat distributed throughout our bodies.
Lynn Sherr
#59. I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.
Jill Scott
#60. Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think about was shopping and jellybeans. Points to the monkey mind.
Anna White
#61. I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Marjorie Gubelmann
#62. She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.
Rachel Caine
#63. Cook things, eat them with other people. If you can tire your own bones while growing the beans, so much the better for you.
Kristin Kimball
#64. I was starting to believe him, and that scared the baked beans out of me.
Rick Riordan
#65. John (Grisham) was really helpful keeping me on track, not wandering off into subplots, making sure I didn't spill the beans too early, all kinds of nitty-gritty things that you've gotta have under control if you're going to write a good thriller.
Tony Vanderwarker
#66. I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.
Moby
#67. I may have discovered what those beans are." It was a weak opening. What I really wanted to say was, "What the hell's the matter with you?" But I thought a soft approach more prudent.
Maria V. Snyder
#68. You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
Tom Stoppard
#70. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.
Larry Brown
#71. Good thing she didn't kick hard enough. My jewels are still intact! My meat is still edible! My tube steak is fully functional! The frank is still above the beans!
Jennifer Foor
#72. I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Rick Blaine
#73. Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.
Ben Goldacre
#74. 90 percent of the corn and cotton and 93 percent of the soy-beans planted in the U.S. last year were genetically modified.
Anonymous
#75. Also because I'm always saying he could quit his job if he wanted and we'll go somewhere cheap and live on rice and beans with our kid. My husband doesn't believe me about that last bit. And why should he? Once I spent $13 on a piece of cheese.
Jenny Offill
#76. Like everything else, the beans had exploded with growth in the last few days. "Holy jumping garbanzos!" my father declared. My mother answered with, "Great leapin' limas!
Will Hobbs
#78. What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.
Martin Caidin
#79. Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans?
Marian Keyes
#80. I swear it's true. If I lie to you, may I be changed into a sofa belonging to a fat family addicted to daytime TV and baked beans." (Fred to Jess)
Sue Limb
#81. Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas.
Horace Gray
#82. Laird suffered second degree burns ... in the frank and beans area, if you know what I mean.
Trent winced. That must have been one hell of a breakup.
Jennifer Shirk
#83. The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
Pete Seeger
#84. Good. Come along you lot. And stay in pairs. You look like shit after someone ate beans. I will need more swear words, too; I love the startled faces when I use them.
K.F. Breene
#85. Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.
But you can't buy fighting spirit.
Robert A. Heinlein
#86. In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.
Martin Yan
#87. Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.
William Banting
#88. Your mother's chili was onions, hamburger, tomato soup, kidney beans, no chili powder, no peppers. Mexican flags flew at half staff every time she made it.
Dennis Vickers
#89. Better feed him more beans or you're going to have a midget on your hands, Wiley," he said. "It's bad enough to be deaf, but to be a deaf midget ... oh God, help us. I had a dog like that once.
Nick Wilgus
#90. Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#91. I'm a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?
Theophilus London
#92. Ashburn gestured dramatically. "Look, I can't explain the psychology behind it. All I know is, it's more satisfying to get the jelly beans with an office supply order. They just taste better when they arrive in the same box as four hundred legal pads.
Nina Post
#93. As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.
Henry Rosovsky
#94. We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine.
Debi Mazar
#95. I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
Robbie Coltrane
#96. Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!
Chuck Baldwin
#97. Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.
Dean Koontz
#98. Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.
Meridel Le Sueur
#99. I don't care if my coffee beans are organic, as long ss they're free range.
Elvis Simpson
#100. Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, USMC, pours some beans into the grinder and starts to belabor the crank. A black flurry begins to accumulate in the coffeepot below. He has learned to make this stuff the Swedish way, using an egg to settle the grounds.
Neal Stephenson
