quotes about Olives
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I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.
-- Audrina Patridge -
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
-- Bayard TaylorSource : Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.67, The Floating Press
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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
-- Boris JohnsonSource : 2004 In the Observer, 20 Jun.
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Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)
-- Elizabeth Strout -
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That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.
-- Eva Ibbotson -
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
-- Horace -
One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.
-- Jacques Pepin -
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I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.
-- Janet EvanovichSource : Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.348, Macmillan
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Knock, Knock." "Who's there?" "Olive." "Olive who?" "Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms.
-- Jean Ferris -
Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.
-- John Marsden -
Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry.
-- Johnny Carson -
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Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.
-- Louis de Bernieres -
I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.
-- Nicole Richie -
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.
-- Odysseas Elytis -
In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]
-- Ovid -
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
-- Queen Latifah -
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
-- Steven Levitt -
... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.
-- Tallulah BankheadSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.
-- Theodore L. CuylerSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 376, 1895.
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