Spoons quotes

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
-- Agatha Christie

#Thinking #Mind #Spoons

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Gun #Spoons #World

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
-- Bergen Evans

#Coffee #Spoons #Civilized

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Life #Book #Spoons

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.
-- Beth Moore

#Scripture #Spoons #Sometimes

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Long #Devil #Spoons

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
-- Christopher Meloni

#Reality #Trying #Spoons

I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.
-- Dane Cook

#Hands #Spoons #Excited

I wasnt born with a silver spoon in my mouth
-- David Burge

#Spoons #Mouths #Silver

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.
-- David Hyde Pierce

#Spoons #Like You #Feels

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
-- Edie Brickell

#Reflection #Spoons #Egotism

We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.
-- George Julius Poulett Scrope

#Witty #Men #Spoons

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Sorcery #Spoons #Flavor

Question your tea spoons.
-- Georges Perec

#Tea #Spoons

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Determination #Doors #Spoons

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Spoons #Half #Saws

As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#Heart #Spoons #Taste

You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.
-- Ilona Andrews

#House #Spoons #Whiskers

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
-- James Randi

#Mean #Psychics #Spoons

There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.
-- Jim Butcher

#Spoons

Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.
-- Jim Connolly

#Teaching #People #Spoons

There's no silver spoon treatment in this place.
-- Joe Calzaghe

#Motivation #Spoons #Fighter

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
-- John Mayer

#School #Useless #Spoons

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.
-- John Mayer

#Use #Spoons #Enough

But I can still lick the spoon!
-- Johnny Knoxville

#Spoons #Stills

Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.
-- Kiersten White

#Noses #Spoons #Faces

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
-- Lawrence Block

#Coffee #Spoons #Cups

Once I cried in a restaurant because the waitress told me I couldn't eat my soup with a fork, I had to use a spoon.
-- Liam Payne

#Use #Spoons #Soup

I've always had a strange fear of spoons.
-- Liam Payne

#Spoons #Strange

I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years
-- Liam Payne

#Years #Spoons #Used

Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.
-- Lilith Saintcrow

#Cutting #Spoons #Cafeteria

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
-- Lincoln Steffens

#Mother #Spoons #Captains

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
-- Louis Sachar

#Lakes #Spoons #Breakfast

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.
-- Malin Akerman

#Nutella #Spoons #Jars

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
-- Margaret Halsey

#Fear #Spoons #Knees

I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.
-- Michael Audain

#Thinking #People #Spoons

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
-- Michael Haneke

#Thinking #Giving #Spoons

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.
-- Mick Jagger

#Morning #Spoons #Looks

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Men #Mouths #Spoons

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
-- Mitchell Burgess

#Thanksgiving #Pie #Spoons

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu

#Long #Spoons #Dining

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
-- Nicholson Baker

#Ice #Sauce #Spoons

Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives.
-- Paul Lieberstein

#Knives #Cereal #Spoons

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!
-- Paul Lynde

#Food #Sandwiches #Spoons

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
-- Paula Creamer

#Growing Up #Independent #Spoons

'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.
-- Ricky Schroder

#Memories #Spoons #Silver

I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.
-- Ricky Schroder

#Kids #Cheesy #Spoons

You're the little spoon, aren't you?
-- Rob Thurman

#Spoons #Littles

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
-- Robert Farrar Capon

#Giving #Spoons #Pasta

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring
-- Sandra Lee

#Spoons #Needs #Silver

To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.
-- Shay Mitchell

#Eye #Tea #Spoons

The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon,
-- Sigfried Giedion

#Coffee #Sun #Spoons

I am too many flavors for one ***** spoon. I want to erase the lines so I can be me. If we do not speak, who will?
-- Staceyann Chin

#Individuality #Spoons #Flavor

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
-- Stephen King

#Ocean #Trying #Spoons

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup...
-- Stephen Sondheim

#Spoons #Soup

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn
-- Stephen Vincent Benet

#Spoons #Use #Silver

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
-- The Weeknd

#Symbolism #Spoons #Stories

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Spoons #Diners #Eating

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.
-- Thomas Hood

#Men #Spoons #Action

Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.
-- Tom Baker

#Kindness #Spoons

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
-- Umberto Eco

#Book #Spoons #Wheels

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
-- Uri Geller

#Years #Kitchen #Spoons

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
-- Van Morrison

#Moon #Spoons #Silver

I love the cancer spoon!
-- Vicki Pettersson

#Cancer #Spoons

Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.
-- Waverley Root

#Food #Spoons #Ships

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
-- Yohan Blake

#Spoons #Mouths #Golden

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
-- Chris O'Dowd

#Thinking #Spoons #Want

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.
-- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

#Food #Cooking #Spoons

You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.
-- Sophal Ear

#Song #People #Spoons

When you're young and you don't grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth, what do you do? You do stuff that you're positive about to help you better your family and your life. That's basically where I was. I wanted to sing, that's what I knew I could do. With that, I really didn't know what that meant. Along the journey I realized what that meant and why I wanted to sing.
-- Tiffany Villarreal

#Growing Up #Journey #Spoons

The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.
-- Adrian Frutiger

#Spoons #Shapes #Soup

I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.
-- Ed Robertson

#People #Spoons #Sporks

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
-- Etheridge Knight

#Angel #Tears #Spoons