Rice Bowl Sayings

#1. The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

Han Suyin

#2. Never break another man's rice bowl.

Akio Morita

#3. We'll always be grateful for the love we've received from all of our fans and supporters, and for winning a Super Bowl, i'll always be proud to say I played for the Baltimore Ravens.

Ray Rice

#4. Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of a bowl of cookie dough?

April Paine

#5. If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Marc Andreessen

#6. Losing was the story of life and depression was the one thing in my existence that was perfect. Flawless depression, it was, that covered the days of my life in a suffocating blanket.

Kirk Gollwitzer

#7. Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Confucius

#8. But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Rick Yancey

#9. But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness.

Amy Tan

#10. There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#11. I don't need to personally agree with something in order to recognize that it's true.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid!

Charles Dickens

#14. Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

Nicolas Cage

#15. Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#16. Titanic got 14 nominations one per lifeboat.

Jim Mullen

#17. Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.

Kathy Freston

#18. Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.

Emma Watson

#19. For a lovely bowl
Let us arrange these flowers ...
For there is no rice

Matsuo Basho

#20. I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

Stephen King

#21. Without fear there cannot be courage.

Christopher Paolini