Quotes About Delicatessen

#1. You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.

Anita Loos

#2. I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

Sandi Toksvig

#3. If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

Casey Stengel

#4. Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar ... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.

Sean Hughes

#5. Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

James Ellroy

#6. Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen ... They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

Phyllis McGinley

#7. In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.

Ronald Kessler

#8. Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

Philip Zimbardo

#9. Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

Milton Berle

#10. A Jewish deli should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods, the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So, if it's a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it's not a Jewish delicatessen.

David Sax

#11. Strictly speaking,' said the King of Fairies between mouthfuls, 'I'm leasing you this food on a limited, bite-by-bite basis and a generous payment-deferral plan. I'd have thought someone would have told you about Fairy food. You always pay, lad. I'm not running a charity delicatessen.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. No place has delicatessen like New York.

Judy Blume

#13. I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means.

Robin Williams

#14. The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.

Peter S. Beagle

#15. He remembered that right after that, he had stolen a loaf of bread from a delicatessen counter and had taken it home and devoured it, feeling that the world owed a loaf of bread to him, and more.

Patricia Highsmith

#16. The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts and rickety baby carriages of the rag pickers with soft powdery snow.

Donald O'Donovan

#17. Tess's Uncle Donald winced when he entered the Kibbitz Room at Attman's Delicatessen. The pained expression

Laura Lippman

#18. The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

Fareed Zakaria

#19. I will never step foot in the Octagon

Jordan Burroughs

#20. Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Clive Thompson

#21. To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#22. What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

Ann Coulter

#23. Do we really have to go through?" groaned the hobbit. "Yes, you do!" said the wizard, "if you want to get to the other side. You must either go through or give up your quest. And I am not going to allow you to back out now, Mr. Baggins.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. You know I'm always in trouble.

Tony Yayo

#25. Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality and the laws, but of religious institutions, and honorably bear his part in supporting them.

Josiah Johnson Hawes

#26. I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.

Susan Lendroth

#27. To experience a great result is for everyone to be part of extending the reign of God's love

Sunday Adelaja

#28. I'm a Native American actress.

Julia Jones

#29. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Sitwell