Quotes About Okra

#1. I have a policy about that word "soul." It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye.

Sarah Vowell

#2. She finished just after him, scooping out fried corn and an okra-tomato-corn medley on his plate.

Alessandra Torre

#3. When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food ... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

Cat Cora

#4. I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

Jason Aldean

#5. Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#6. Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.

John Sandford

#7. I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Tom Colicchio

#8. I hate milk. Coats your throat as bad as okra. Something just downright disgusting about it.

Marsha Norman

#9. Usually when I'm stressed, I'll eat everything not nailed down. Only small children and family pets are safe. And okra - I won't eat okra under any circumstances.

Sue Ann Jaffarian

#10. We call that runnin' through the okra patch.

Fred Smoot

#11. It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors.

Pat Conroy

#12. Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Robin Williams

#13. There's a Nigerian adage that says 'no matter how long an okra plant grows it can never be taller than its owner'.

S.A. David

#14. Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter. There's a lot of pressure there. On the flip side, I think having to produce like that makes you a better comedian.

Kurt Braunohler

#15. Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself.
Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.

Bob Buford

#16. Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.

Ali Harper

#17. Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

Michael Gungor

#18. I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

Matt Drudge

#19. I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.

Rachel Hartman

#20. But it is one thing to remember, another to know. Remembering is merely safeguarding something entrusted to the memory; knowing, however, means making everything your own; it means not depending upon the copy and not all the time glancing back at the master.

Seneca.

#21. The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

Thomas Aquinas

#22. Hey!" Dawson yelled from the front door. "I think Dee caught the microwave on fire. Again. And I tried popping some popcorn with my hands and it kind of went wrong. Like really, really wrong."
Daemon pressed his forehead against mine and growled. "Dammit.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. Forget? No." Conner frowned. "It has been decades, and I still remember every detail about her: her smell, her touch, the way her voice hummed in my ears. Why would I want to forget any of that? Those memories are my treasures.

H.L. Burke

#24. arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

Celso Cukierkorn

#25. Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Regina Brett

#26. It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

Audrey Tautou