Tinned Quotes

#1. If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

Harold Wilson

#2. The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

Anthony Burgess

#3. Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.

George Orwell

#4. In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

Morris Gleitzman

#5. I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.

Flora Thompson

#6. The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.

Helen Hodgman

#7. Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.

Colin Bateman

#8. Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. Even in some smoky post-catastrophe Manhattan you could imagine him swaying genially at the door in the rags of his former uniform, the Barbours up in the apartment burning old National Geographics for warmth, living off gin and tinned crabmeat.

Donna Tartt

#10. We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

George Orwell

#11. I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Douglas Coupland

#12. It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature - like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines

Mary MacLane

#13. But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.

Thomas Moore

#14. I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

Matthew McGrory

#15. I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

Bill Walsh

#16. When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

Bob Dylan

#17. Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

Scott Cunningham

#18. The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith: alas, discretion prevailed.

Arthur C. Clarke

#19. Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Ronald Reagan

#20. Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.

Philip Morrison

#21. Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

Bill W.

#22. The place was silent and - aware.

P.C. Wren

#23. America has the best politicians money can buy.

Will Rogers

#24. We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

Ben Stein

#25. We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

George Eliot

#26. No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer.

Toni Sorenson

#27. Somewhere the hurting must stop,

Terry Fox