Quotes About Pie Crust

#1. Her whole body shivered and her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust. She put it together again slowly, as if lifting a great weight, by sheer will power. The smile came back, with a couple of corners badly bent.

Raymond Chandler

#2. Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel)

Kim Harrison

#3. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

#4. (a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with a swan's-down tippet for a beard, and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie-crust),

Charles Dickens

#5. I tend to lose control when pie crust is involved.

Alice Clayton

#6. I was making pie.

I didn't usually make pie, but I was waiting for the bread to rise so I could knead it again. I'd woken up with a thirst for violence. Cutting the butter into the flour for pie crust was almost as good as kneading bread.

Penny Reid

#7. Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

Austin O'Malley

#8. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.

Charles Dickens

#9. I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you're just another pretty face and you don't have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career.

Erin Cummings

#10. The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Mencius

#11. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook, you pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling.

Lemony Snicket

#12. He's practically stalking me. He just won't let it go. He's just being ... he's being a jackass with a flaky jackass crust and a delicious jackass filling."
"So he's jackass pie?

Molly Harper

#13. She savors each bite: the meringue is perfect crispy brown on top, melts in the mouth; the lemon tart, custardy; the crust breaks away.

A.M. Homes

#14. The wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.

Sun Tzu

#15. Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

A.B. Simpson

#16. There were little triangles of coconut custard pie on a graham cracker crust for dessert, the best and sweetest thing ...

Joe Hill

#17. It could be argued that there is an element of entertainment in every pie, as every pie is inherently a surprise by virtue of its crust.

Janet Clarkson

#18. Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

Nancy Astor

#19. it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.

Charles Dickens

#20. Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#21. Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Harry Reasoner

#22. Medical care has become a lot of crust and precious little pie.

Mark Vonnegut

#23. I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage.

Joshua Ferris

#24. Mother took the pie out of the oven and it hissed fragrant apple, maple, cinnamon steam through the knife cuts in the top crust. She was making her world beautiful. She was making her world delicious. It could be done, and if anyone could do it, she could.

J.J. Brown

#25. Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

George McGovern

#26. I'd have apple pie. You break through the crust and it's juicy underneath.

Fay Weldon

#27. I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

William Kempe

#28. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Dale Carnegie

#29. Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

Margaret Kennedy

#30. The children born of thee are sword and fire,
Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws,

Alfred Tennyson