Thing Since Sliced Bread Quotes

#1. What was the best thing before sliced bread?

George Carlin

#2. I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme ... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Mo Ibrahim

#3. Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.

Neil Gaiman

#4. I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

Dexter Fletcher

#5. The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#6. You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist.

Criss Jami

#7. Slavery, no matter who was the master, held unknown terrors of helplessness.

Wen Spencer

#8. And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread is not always about what the patent is like or what the factory is like, it's about can you get your idea to spread or not?

Seth Godin

#9. I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

Vivienne Westwood

#10. I wished my family would buy normal sliced white bread, the kind that went into toasters, like every other family I knew.

Anonymous

#11. And this is the worse part of it - when you realize that what separates you, someone who can leave, from someone who is trapped in Aleppo, or Homs or Douma or Darayya, is that you can walk away and go back to your home with electricity and sliced bread; then you begin to feel ashamed to be human.

Janine Di Giovanni

#12. The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod, consisting of thinly sliced, buttered bread and many delectable toppings.

DeeDee Stovel

#13. Gabrielle opened the fridge, which was held shut with a strip of gaff tape, and pulled out sliced white bread, margarine and plastic cheese. It was the only time Lenny had seen ants running out of a fridge.

Caroline Shaw

#14. There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Forever is only now. Let's enjoy it and not think about tomorrow.

Renee Carlino

#16. Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Fran Lebowitz

#17. You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

Bette Midler

#18. I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Candice Bergen

#19. To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

Steven Rattner

#20. Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

Leonard Lauder

#21. I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger.

Gretchen Rubin

#22. Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

Art Smith

#23. Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.

Vincent Van Gogh