Top 100 Quotes About Fennel
#1. It would be wrong to describe Fennel as courageous as it would be wrong to describe a leopard as courageous.It runs when it can but when cornered turns to be one of the dangerous and vicious of all jungle beasts.
The vulture is a patient bird.
James hadley chase.
James Hadley Chase
#2. He leaned over and removed the lid, and some really wonderful smells steamed out. But I wasn't going to get excited, not this time, because it was probably Bambi in shallots or Nemo with fennel or -
Karen Chance
#3. My favorite dish is brown rice with lentils, roasted red and yellow peppers, and fennel, with a sweet potato and a salad on the side.
Christie Brinkley
#4. Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.
John Keats
#5. Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people ... Fennel ... smelling of changes to come.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#6. In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.
Ina Garten
#7. Fennel licked her sleeves with his paper tongue and wagged his tail so fiercely she feared it would fly off his rump and land in the icebox.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#8. Petting the cat makes you feel better, Fennel asserted smugly.
Robin Hobb
#9. Julian presented the food. A fillet of sea bass with perfect griddle marks and a scattering of fennel picked from a nearby hedgerow. There were caramelized carrots, baby la ratte potatoes and a garnish of roasted tomatoes that had made a brief appearance in a painting that afternoon.
Red Ochre Press
#10. Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.
Neal Stephenson
#11. I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!
April Bloomfield
#12. Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.
John Cowper Powys
#13. One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.
Kevin Barry
#14. What are those bulb things you're slicing?"
"You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.
Ken Jennings
#15. We use many expressions of fennel: blended with potato, it's an earthy, rich puree; the raw fronds add a fresh, green note; and the braised version gives it a luscious, home-cooked feel, something people can connect to - you need that in any dish.
Daniel Humm
#16. Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#17. Oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter.
George R R Martin
#18. I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.
Donald Barthelme
#20. You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.
Fennel Hudson
#21. Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.
Fennel Hudson
#22. Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.
Fennel Hudson
#24. If I can't garden in it, then I won't wear it.
Fennel Hudson
#25. Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.
Fennel Hudson
#26. Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.
Fennel Hudson
#27. We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be.
Fennel Hudson
#28. Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning.
Fennel Hudson
#29. Those who sprint might travel quicker, but we'll all end up in the same place at the end.
Fennel Hudson
#31. A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.
Fennel Hudson
#32. A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.
Fennel Hudson
#33. Change bothers me. I don't cope too well with fashions, fads and urban traffic lights.
Fennel Hudson
#35. Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.
Fennel Hudson
#36. Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful.
Fennel Hudson
#38. It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.
Fennel Hudson
#39. Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.
Fennel Hudson
#40. The degree to which we notice the obvious or the subtle, and the angle of light that we see falling upon it, depends upon how closely we look and the time we spend studying.
Fennel Hudson
#42. A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window.
Fennel Hudson
#43. If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you'll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn't easily found in the self.
Fennel Hudson
#44. It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.
Fennel Hudson
#45. You have to feel the bite of the wind to appreciate the warmth of a winter coat.
Fennel Hudson
#46. Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.
Fennel Hudson
#47. There is something eternally satisfying about lying motionless for hours on end, watching the world move around us like the shadow on a sundial.
Fennel Hudson
#48. Nature, in her untamed state, is savage and unrelenting.
Fennel Hudson
#49. Man-made fabrics? What provenance do they have? A squirt of gloop into a petri dish? Strands of plastic spun in sterile laboratories? They are but toxins made safe by men in white coats.
Fennel Hudson
#50. As travellers through time, we are burdened with the stone in our shoe that tells us to stop running, to pause and take stock before we stumble and fall. We should make time to savour the quality of our lives before it's too late.
Fennel Hudson
#51. Life. It's about adventure, of having a dream and following it.
Fennel Hudson
#52. These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments.
Fennel Hudson
#53. The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.
Fennel Hudson
#54. Being here is such a contrast to where I'd otherwise be.
Fennel Hudson
#55. Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.
Fennel Hudson
#56. There is a moment during every fight with a strong fish when you wonder whether it or you will win the battle.
Fennel Hudson
#57. As the natural world grows smaller, so too does its intensity and the size of the window through which it may be viewed.
Fennel Hudson
#58. Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.
Fennel Hudson
#59. What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.
Fennel Hudson
#60. Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.
Fennel Hudson
#61. The greatest gifts are those that say, "I know you".
Fennel Hudson
#63. I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.
Fennel Hudson
#64. We all need to believe in something, a dream that gives us optimism and faith.
Fennel Hudson
#65. Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another.
Fennel Hudson
#66. Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we're allowed to explore the side streets.
Fennel Hudson
#67. Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can't see.
Fennel Hudson
#69. Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman's trapdoor.
Fennel Hudson
#70. Truth, as I have learned, is difficult to ignore.
Fennel Hudson
#71. A perpetual world; a world within a world. Of my mind and outside my mind. The real world is the dream world.
Fennel Hudson
#72. December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.
Fennel Hudson
#73. Having a 'taste for life' is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.
Fennel Hudson
#74. Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It's staying out of the rat race that's tricky.
Fennel Hudson
#75. It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.
Fennel Hudson
#76. Editing one's writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.
Fennel Hudson
#77. Breathe deeply, focus your thoughts, and say out loud, "The quest begins here.
Fennel Hudson
#78. The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.
Fennel Hudson
#80. If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.
Fennel Hudson
#82. Many people fear the unknown. They busy themselves at motorway speed so to excuse their lack of understanding of the world around them.
Fennel Hudson
#83. The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.
Fennel Hudson
#84. My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.
Fennel Hudson
#85. I wasn't born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I'm here to be me, to write, and know my purpose.
Fennel Hudson
#86. Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.
Fennel Hudson
#87. It's the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what's beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.
Fennel Hudson
#88. You'll never find yourself anywhere other than where you are right now.
Fennel Hudson
#89. Where the writing takes place doesn't matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.
Fennel Hudson
#90. Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.
Fennel Hudson
#91. Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.
Fennel Hudson
#92. Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower.
Fennel Hudson
#93. Be patient, persistent and above all, believe.
Fennel Hudson
#94. It seems that, depending upon which side of the thesaurus-writer's gaze we sit, one's uniqueness can be deemed to be either eccentric or distinctive. Both, in my opinion, are good.
Fennel Hudson
#95. We are responsible for our actions. But we must battle for sufficient time in our own lives to bring value to our existence.
Fennel Hudson
#96. The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure.
Fennel Hudson
#97. I'm in no hurry to do anything. I'll probably lie here for the rest of the day. (Great term, that, 'rest of the day'.)
Fennel Hudson
#98. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.
Fennel Hudson
#99. There are many Universal Facts of Life: things that are so tried and tested as to be irrefutable.
Fennel Hudson
#100. The wild carp is an icon that forges a living connection between the past and the present.
Fennel Hudson
