Quotes About Starch

#1. Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

Stanley Fish

#2. a melting pot. It's more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies. I'm looking at him and he's still not looking

Nicola Yoon

#3. Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

Ira Glass

#4. America's not really a melting pot. It's more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.

Nicola Yoon

#5. The profound and primal cause of obesity will one day be recognized to be the use of cereal and starch foods.

Emmet Densmore

#6. Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#7. A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.

George Eliot

#8. I needed a way to have the platter continuously spinning while I'm moving the record back and forth. I went to a fabric store. When I touched this hairy stuff - felt - I found it. I rubbed spray starch on both sides and ironed it until it became a stiff wafer. After that, I was able to stop time.

Grandmaster Flash

#9. In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

Stephane Mallarme

#10. The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.

David Mitchell

#11. A general guideline when eating at a fast-food restaurant is to avoid anything fried. You also want to avoid chips, packaged candy, baked goods such as donuts, and other high-starch or high-sugar foods that contain saturated fat, trans fat, and additives.

Bob Harper

#12. Long aprons with starch. Off in the drawing room, it sounded like bees buzzing. Missus showed

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. Among the seventy-three teachers who responded, scores ranged from 50 to 96! Just as Starch and Elliott found a century earlier, scores varied by more than forty-five percentage points - and that's among teachers who received specific professional development in writing assessment!

Thomas Guskey

#14. There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

Edward Norton

#15. Chapter the Eleventh: In Which the Plot, Behaving in Much the Manner Of a Soup to which Corn Starch Has been Added, Begins, at Last, to Thicken.

Steven Brust

#16. Tis now the twenty-third of march,
And this warm sun takes out the starch
Of winter's pinafore -
Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks
A health to spring, and while it sips
It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

Luis Federico Leloir

#18. The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

Josh Billings

#19. It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects

Elf Sternberg

#20. In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

George Eliot

#21. Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

Beau Brummell

#22. Wet milling (to produce starch) is an energy-intensive way to make food; for every calorie of processed food it produces, another ten calories of fossil fuel energy are burned.

Michael Pollan

#23. I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation

Alan Bradley

#24. Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust.

Bill Buford

#25. I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

Daniel Boulud

#26. Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

Terry Pratchett

#27. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

#28. Psst. Minion. I need these laundered. Very little starch. Don't just stand there gawking or you'll anger my good frenemy General Wroth. We're like this

Kresley Cole

#29. Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Cyndi Lauper

#30. Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta.

Cynthia Kenyon

#31. Shoot for a total of no more than 80 grams of carbs in your daily diet. This means favoring vegetables that grow above ground like kale, broccoli, spinach, and cauliflower as opposed to those that store carbohydrate in the form of starch like potatoes and beets.

David Perlmutter

#32. Blood is thicker than water, but they still use corn starch as a thickener on cooking shows

Josh Stern

#33. I'm imagining the reader, whom I conjure as an aspiring artist much like my own younger, less grizzled self, to whom I hope to impart a little starch and inspiration and prime, a little, with some hard-knocks wisdom and a few tricks of the trade.

Steven Pressfield

#34. Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Maya Angelou

#35. The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

Daniel Starch

#36. Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem ... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

Daniel Starch

#37. Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

Daniel Starch