Soup Bowl Sayings

#1. I know few greater pleasures than holding a lacquer soup bowl in my hands, feeling upon my palms the weight of the liquid and its mild warmth. The sensation is something like that of holding a plump newborn baby.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#2. A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It's still a book if you're reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it's in.

Fredrik Backman

#4. That bowl of soup - it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.

Billy Connolly

#6. If you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

Noam Chomsky

#7. Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.

Sam Cooke

#9. Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years! Indeed it has. And then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became medicine. And the rest of it's just a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri.

Dara O Briain

#10. When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

Tom Douglas

#11. He was friendly as a warm bowl of soup. An affable guy, he always had a dimpled smile on his face and lived life unplagued by want.

Joseph G. Peterson

#12. I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me ... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

Ivan Turgenev

#13. Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. They're not love letters in the strictest sense of the word. My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. They're for good-bye. Because after I write my letter, I'm no longer consumed by my all-consuming love.

Jenny Han

#15. I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

Mary-Louise Parker

#16. It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.

Richard Gehman

#17. [On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat
out of her new blouse.

Lilly Dache

#18. Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#19. My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.

Frank Kusy

#20. Even the most gentle people have a dark side you know." I was trying to warn him.
"I know," he said handing me the other bowl of soup.
"It's how you control that darkness that defines you.

Jennifer Wilson

#21. Ms. McMartin had no close family. Her nearest relative was a distant cousin who had recently died in Shanghai, after a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup.

Jacqueline West

#22. I'm sorry, 'herbal medicine', "Oh, herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri, so knock yourselves out.

Dara O Briain

#23. Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

Mary DeTurris Poust