Quotes About Spoons

#1. Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

Agnes De Mille

#2. If you want to mimic spoons in a drawer, I promise I won't think anythin' of it."
She realized that curling the same way they'd fit much better. She sighed. "Okay, but I get to be the big spoon. I don't want to accidentally bump into your ... "
"Knife?" he supplied.

Ashlyn Chase

#3. I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.

T. S. Eliot

#4. Tiny spoons were incompatible with a state of sensual turmoil.

Tessa Dare

#5. I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans ... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

Timbaland

#6. During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.

Fred Thompson

#7. One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Oliver Goldsmith

#8. I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

Etheridge Knight

#9. We lay on our sides, like spoons nesting in a drawer. My arm ended up under her head, like a pillow. She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there. - Kvothe - The Name Of The Wind - pg 629

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. the spoons jumped off the rack. And a couple of times I've heard a man call my name when no one else was here

Leslie Rule

#11. To independence!" added Pocked Louise. "No fussy old widows telling us when not to speak, and how to set the spoons when an earl's niece comes to supper. And telling us to leave scientific experiments to the men.

Julie Berry

#12. Most likely Pistons," said Pillover in a resigned tone of voice. "You told them about the ball. They like to go to events uninvited, put gin in the punch, and steal all the spoons. Stylish shenanigans like that."
"Charming," said Sophronia.

Gail Carriger

#13. You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.

This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness.

Kristen Henderson

#14. The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Augusten Burroughs

#15. Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.

Blair Jackson

#16. Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Miguel De Cervantes

#17. Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or midget hands, clocks that didn't work, flowered china, spotty mirrors and ponderous furniture, the flotsam left by those receding centuries in which, more and more, I was living.

Margaret Atwood

#19. Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

Saint Francis De Sales

#21. This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

Neil Patrick Harris

#22. And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope ... that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.

L.J.Smith

#23. There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

Edna O'Brien

#24. Sweetly and subtly perfumed ... so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.

Waverley Root

#25. Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

Mitt Romney

#26. somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the far

Eliza Knight

#27. You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sandra Lee

#28. I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.

Ricky Schroder

#29. To get rid of swelling ... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

Shay Mitchell

#30. Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud

#31. We are people; human fucking beings, alive and kicking and wonderful in our weirdness. We are not spoons. And we should not act like we are".

Rasmus Hammarberg

#32. So many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#33. There's no silver spoon treatment in this place.

Joe Calzaghe

#34. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Guy Finley

#35. The people we choose not to forgive will move one. They'll get over it. meanwhile the person who refuses to forgive is like a tea bag steeping so long that even 10 spoons of sugar wouldn't make the bitterness worth drinking.

Marilyn Grey

#36. What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

Jose Ferreira

#37. His mother was a good and fearful Lutheran, who gave away both time and money, visiting hospitals for the poor, organising bazaars and clothing collections. But she ate from Meissen porcelain with silver spoons. There were hideous inconsistencies.

A.S. Byatt

#38. No. I can't have sex with you today because there aren't enough spoons.

Jenny Lawson

#39. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?

T. S. Eliot

#40. I think there is status to having a house full of pretty things, to buying expensive paintings of seashells from her arty friends and spoons from Tiffany's.

E. Lockhart

#41. For I have known them all already, known them all
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T. S. Eliot

#42. What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Thomas Carlyle

#43. If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Samuel Johnson

#44. I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.

Michael Audain

#45. One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.

Philip Yancey

#46. Linus Lucas was fourteen years old, a number that made the spoons fall right out of our mouths.

Heather O'Neill

#47. Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

Feist

#48. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

George Carlin

#49. Bronson always said that, of all the girls, Louisa was most like her mother, and he didn't mean it as a compliment. Both were mercurial, passionate, willful. Louisa had seen despair like Abba's from the inside. She had inherited it the way some daughters came into a silver tray or a set of spoons.

Kelly O'Connor McNees

#50. Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Mark Twain

#51. I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you were wondering. An oldie but a goodie. When it came to existential exhaustion, the man was one smart cookie.

Justin Cronin

#52. She glanced at Tyson, who'd lost interest in our conversation and was happily making toy boats out of cups and spoons in the lava.

Rick Riordan

#53. Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

William Least Heat-Moon

#54. Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Bergen Evans

#55. Slotted spoons don't hold much soup...

Stephen Sondheim

#56. Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons.

Kurt Vonnegut

#57. Personally, I always compare myself to Galileo because everyone knows he's fantastic, but he has no spoons at all because he's dead. So technically I'm better than Galileo because all I've done is take a shower and already I've accomplished more than him today.

Jenny Lawson

#58. When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

Michael Fassbender

#59. I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

Dane Cook

#60. Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

Theodore Zeldin

#61. We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.

Tug McGraw

#62. Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives.

Paul Lieberstein

#63. The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Mitchell Burgess

#64. My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

Margaret Halsey

#65. I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.

Ed Robertson

#66. A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

Ernest Hemingway,

#67. This table is a pigeon trap. A dozen different forks and knives and spoons. Four different goblets. All of them just waiting to be knocked over or misapplied and mishandled. It's a wonder anyone is ever tempted to eat.

Siri Mitchell

#68. The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon,

Sigfried Giedion

#69. I've always had a strange fear of spoons.

Liam Payne

#70. A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.

Thomas Hood

#71. Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn't eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon.

Liam Payne

#72. We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.

Sam Lipsyte

#73. when my children used their spoons to make a noise if I spoke to them, clashed their spoons in my face when I spoke, stood small before me using their utensils like swords,

Anonymous

#74. It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.

Alanis Morissette

#75. I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#76. Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.

Sukarno

#77. And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she's having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie's face. But in a controlled way.

Fredrik Backman

#78. Yes, I think the apostle spoons could have gone as rent," said Margaret.

E. M. Forster

#79. A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

Hafez

#80. There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

Cliff Richard

#81. Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

Jeanne DuPrau

#82. Finally the little flat spoons lay still on the glass plates. Hennie looked rather exhausted, but she pulled on her white gloves again. She had some trouble with her diamond wrist-watch; it got in her way.

Katherine Mansfield

#83. They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang.

Marisha Pessl

#84. Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

David Foster Wallace

#85. He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.

Christopher Marlowe

#86. You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.

Sophal Ear

#87. There was a sliding noise and a tinkle exactly like the tinkle a spoon makes when it's put back among the other spoons, who have missed it and are anxious to hear its tales of life among the frighteningly pointy people.

Terry Pratchett

#88. The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

Adrian Frutiger

#89. On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

Shirley Jackson

#90. Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Gertrude Stein

#91. Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Stephen Vincent Benet

#92. In Michaela's favourite restaurant, I lift my glass and cutlery spills onto the expensive tiled floor. The sound crashes high as the skylight. Looking at me, Michaela pushes her own silverware over the edge. I fell in love amid the clattering of spoons ...

Anne Michaels

#93. And you, Kibbles, had better lay off me. One more growl and I swear I'm going to geld you with a spoon. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#94. I knew that he would go out to the tavern, returning with eyes like glittering spoons.

Tracy Chevalier

#95. I read a jaw-dropping online defense of these weapons from a California woman recently. Guns, she said, are just tools. Like spoons, she said. Would you outlaw spoons simply because some people use them to eat too much? Lady, let's see you try to kill twenty schoolkids with a fucking spoon.

Stephen King

#96. I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon.
I want to erase the lines so I can be me.
If we do not speak, who will?

Staceyann Chin

#97. When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

George Bernard Shaw

#98. Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

James Randi

#99. Loving me with my shoes off
means loving my long brown legs,
sweet dears, as good as spoons;
and my feet, those two children
let out to play naked.

Anne Sexton

#100. He kisses like ... like it could be his job." Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. "Like a male prostitute?

Jenny Han