Joan Dye Gussow quotes

Joan Dye Gussow quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.”
-- Joan Dye Gussow

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“Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.”
-- Joan Dye Gussow

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“If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.”
-- Joan Dye Gussow

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“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”

Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.”
“The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!”
“Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.”
“Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.”
“Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.”
“Total contentment is only for cows.”
“A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.”
“Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.178, Pan Macmillan
“Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.”

Source : "The Norton History of Chemistry" by William H. Brock, W W Norton & Co Inc., (p xxvi), 1993.

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