Salted Quotes

#1. Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.

Ruta Sepetys

#2. The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara and Thebes were taken from tombs and brought to Cairo, they were taxed as salted fish before being permitted entry to the city.

Mark Kurlansky

#3. In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

Laurie Colwin

#4. A chunk of seared albacore tuna, salted and peppered, then seared rare in a little oil in a hot skillet for just a minute or so per side, is the perfect addition to a savory plate of fried rice. Just slice the tuna across the grain and fan those mild, meaty slices over the top of the rice.

Tom Douglas

#5. People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

John Piper

#6. Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Amy Grant

#7. There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

Woody Allen

#8. Poncho was in a red mood slanging with rage and needed to cook himself out of it , while shoving handfuls of salted peanuts down his gullet and slurping ice cold Fanta

Saira Viola

#9. The hams of Westphalia, which were dried, salted, and then smoked with unique local woods - a recipe still followed today in Westphalia - were very popular with Romans.

Mark Kurlansky

#10. What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

#11. Count your salted wounds then name them
like the stars of a bright constellation
Count your scars and bruises then give them
the wings of forgiveness to fly

Malak El Halabi

#12. Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

Trinny Woodall

#13. Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.

Tommy Cooper

#14. Pastrami, of Romanian origin, is dried, spiced, and salted beef, smoked over hardwood sawdust and then steamed. The name may come from pastra, the Romanian verb "to preserve.

Mark Kurlansky

#15. Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.

Angela Elwell Hunt

#16. Father,
you died once,
salted down at fifty-nine,
packed down like a big snow angel,
wasn't that enough?

Anne Sexton

#17. This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.

Conn Iggulden

#18. The huntsman couldn't bear to kill Snow White, of course, so presented instead the organs of a pig. According to the original Grimms' tale the Queen inspected them, was satisfied, then ate them "salted and cooked.

Gavin Francis

#19. Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over.

Elinor Wylie

#20. I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

Hedda Hopper

#21. I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted, bloodstained tears.

Anne Rice

#22. I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.

Joanna Lumley

#23. The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Then

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#24. The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.

Kris Vallotton

#25. They passed it late in the afternoon, their single sail stretched to bursting, clinker-built hull heeling well over, bow slicing up a column of spray that salted mouths, eyes and bodies.

Garth Nix

#26. I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.

Elmer Kelton

#27. Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Mickey Spillane

#28. When the going gets tough, the tough get salted caramel cappuccinos.

Dani Harper

#29. I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.

Nora Ephron

#30. If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

Thom Yorke

#31. Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.

Sara Sheridan

#32. A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#33. THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

Mark Kurlansky

#34. He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing I've ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future

Nicola Yoon

#35. Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Joseph Alsop

#36. She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.

Kathryn Stockett

#37. The saints, who are living sacrifices to God, must have salt in themselves, for every sacrifice must be salted with salt (Mark 9:49,

Matthew Henry

#38. Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

Terry Pratchett

#39. I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Robert Jordan

#40. In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.

Indra Nooyi

#41. War and tooth enameled
salted lemon childhoods
All colors run, none of us solid
Don't look for shadow behind me
I carry it within
I live cycles of light and darkness

Suheir Hammad

#42. My trainer taught me, because he's Iranian, and that's a beautiful snack [pistachios]. I have some with me, actually, in my bag. You could eat that on a plane instead of the salted nuts. And a serving size a day is the size of your hand, not the size of your head!

Sandra Cisneros

#43. My father would eat cat shit if it was salted, fried, or frosted, but it took an act of Congress to get him to eat a vegetable.

Janet Evanovich

#44. You can always put balsamic vinaigrette on salted meat and sort of pretend it's a salad.

Karen Russell

#45. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish.

Rex Stout

#46. Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes,
For he's a burning atmospheric sigh:
One blaze of liquid flame on midnight sky,
Soft orbital decay, and last goodbye.

Alan James Roll

#47. Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

Brett Hoebel

#48. We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.

Sorin Cerin

#49. Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

Henry A. Kissinger

#50. Breathing in Shepelevo was like hitting the right note on the piano. There was only one note. When I was young, Shepelevo was the smell of nettles, of salted smoked fish, of fresh water from the Gulf of Finland, and of burning firewood, all wrapped up in one Shepelevo.

Paullina Simons

#51. Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper, far out of reach of vessels, blood vessels bursting, that thick humming in the head. To find the words, just out of reach, beyond my hand, the coral of it, the pearl of it, fish.

Jeanette Winterson

#52. The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to seventy grams in the eighteenth century.

Mark Kurlansky

#53. Nicholas had not seen such a look of unwelcome surprise on his captain's face since the time their former cook announced he had served the crew stewed rat instead of salted beef.

Alexandra Bracken

#54. I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

Ed Oxenbould

#55. Plank to base. I require urgent backup. Repeat. Urgent backup. Am knackered. Repeat. Knackered. And can you pick me up a bag of ready salted crisps on the way? Repeat. Ready salted crisps. Urgent. Over.

David Walliams

#56. butter in a golden lump, drowning in the buttermilk. Then Ma took out the lump with a wooden paddle, into a wooden bowl, and she washed it many times in cold water, turning it over and over and working it with the paddle until the water ran clear. After that she salted it. Now

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#57. This kiss was of a different taste. Instead of the raw, angry, tear-salted heat we had both felt before, it was a kiss of pure adoration and was very, very sweet.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#58. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

Gregory David Roberts

#59. completely. Meanwhile, bring another pan of salted water to the boil and blanch the broccoli for 1 minute, drain and pat completely dry with kitchen paper.

Anna Clark

#60. Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

Hedrick Smith

#61. Dear Mr. Gibbon. Sorry I was absent. Here is some salted food. Please grade it the way you would a jenti piece of beef jerky.

Douglas Rees

#62. She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair. But

Elena Ferrante

#63. I have salted my hatred and cured it, stored it in a dark cellar of my mind against the day when I could let it be my only nourishment. The day is finally come, and I will tear into this meat and savor its taste.

Kevin Hearne

#64. we have forgotten what night tastes like,
salted by full moon silver rupturing
the dark. we have forgotten how the skin
sings when the lunar fervor unfurls
across its follicles.

Beth Morey

#65. Two peanuts were walking down the street, and one was a salted.

Tina Fey