You Can Have My Leftovers Quotes

#1. Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

Nicole Hollander

#2. All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

Evan Esar

#3. Certainly no one on-site asked for my opinion, but I have always felt there should be no leftovers. It's untidy, and it shows a lack of a real workmanlike spirit.

Jeff Lindsay

#4. The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

Tony Romo

#5. There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."

Justin Theroux

#6. For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.

Michael Dirda

#7. I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure
hunger, thirst, shelter
and they didn't mind leftovers.

Laura Wiess

#8. Tuesdays are the worst. They are the spoiled leftovers of Mondays, repackaged with a new expiry date.

Sorin Suciu

#9. A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#10. Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Peg Bracken

#11. Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.

Paula H. Deen

#12. A lighthearted prayer for Thanksgiving:

May you have turkey in season
Cranberries for squeezin'
Gravy (within reason)
And leftovers worth freezin'!
Amen

by Merrill Miller of Scottdale, PA

Mary Beth Lind

#13. I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.

Tristram Stuart

#14. I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#15. She undoes a clasp on her golden gown and it falls to the floor. She's beautiful. The half of her that's covered in skin. The rest looks like Thanksgiving leftovers a couple of days past their prime.

Richard Kadrey

#16. At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#17. My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.

Ruth Reichl

#18. I cling to our love like saran wrap on leftovers. If you want to know when dinner will be ready, the answer is last night. We could make love, or we could simply reheat what we already had.

Jarod Kintz

#19. If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

Christian Louboutin

#20. I just received the message she left earlier today. She left the message yesterday, but she left today. Now I feel like leftovers, but I don't feel like leftovers. I need to cook and eat a fresh meal to not think of myself as yesterday's fresh meal.

Jarod Kintz

#21. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

#22. Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

Pete Hamill

#23. The only thing that comes to those who wait is leftovers.

Danny Stone

#24. I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.

Carrie Coon

#25. An old cardboard box: you think it but you don't say it.
Leftovers, that are swept up and glued together.
I am your alipte, I say, I am your personal trainer and masseuse. I oil you.
But there's no ointment against the bad thoughts and phantasms.

Helene Cixous

#26. My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

David Byrne

#27. I think of leftovers like scabs, don't pick at em.

Scott Parker

#28. It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Julian Baggini

#29. We want to teach families how to cook Tuscan wherever you are. How to reuse your leftovers. How to trick the kids into eating whatever you want by putting it into a frittata.

Debi Mazar

#30. Bodies are just leftovers, not the real event on death.

Kat Richardson