quotes about Spices
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Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
-- Bette Davis -
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
-- Calvin Trillin -
I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive.
-- Cat Cora -
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Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
-- Christopher ColumbusSource : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54
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Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.
-- David Levithan -
Painters used red like spice
-- Derek JarmanSource : Derek Jarman (2017). “Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93”, p.33, Random House
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Interruptions are the spice of life.
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”
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I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.
-- Eddie Murphy -
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Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
-- Erma Bombeck -
The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
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He who controls the spice controls the universe.
-- Frank Herbert -
The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.
-- Gary Neville -
It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
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I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.
-- Gordon Brown -
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.
-- Graham Joyce -
Stress is the spice of life.
-- Hans SelyeSource : hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”
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The world loves a spice of wickedness.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.
-- Isaiah Mustafa -
Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.
-- Jacob M. Appel -
But let me ask you this though, first and foremost: who's your favorite Spice Girl? Mine is Sporty Spice and I'll tell you why. You know what? She might not be as aesthetically pleasant as the rest but she'll do a backflip and steal your heart.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
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Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
-- Joan AikenSource : Joan Aiken (2015). “The Last Slice of Rainbow: And Other Stories”, p.114, Open Road Media
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I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.
-- Joe Perry -
Ek Main Aur Ek Tu was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.
-- Kareena Kapoor -
Flirting with death is the spice of life.
-- Margaret M. LockSource : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.366, Univ of California Press
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The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
-- Marian Burros -
It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.
-- Marlo Morgan -
Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.
-- Martina NavratilovaSource : "Martina Navratilova On Staying Fit, Coming Out, Battling Cancer And Transcending Sports". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.
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Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back.
-- Melanie BrownSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.
-- Melanie Chisholm -
Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.
-- Melanie Chisholm -
what's life without a spice of stupidity
-- Nancy SpringerSource : Nancy Springer (2003). “Outlaw Princess of Sherwood”, p.23, Penguin
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A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.
-- Nobu Matsuhisa -
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I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.
-- Paul Lynde -
One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.
-- Philip Massinger -
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
-- Phyllis McGinleySource : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”
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Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
-- Plautus -
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I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.
-- Rachael Ray -
Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
-- Rachel Bilson -
Woman I love the Vibes, I love the Spice, I love the Passion you bring...
-- Richie SpiceSource : "Song: 'Brown Skin'". 2007.
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Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.
-- Rick Tramonto -
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Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.
-- Rudolf Arnheim -
Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.
-- Ruta Sepetys -
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon -
All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. Theyre also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.
-- Suzanne Somers -
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.
-- Tadashi Yanai -
I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.
-- Tim Allen -
I can't deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price - I'm on medication for heartburn, so that's how I deal with it.
-- Tom Colicchio -
The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.
-- Tom Standage -
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Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.
-- Tony Robbins -
When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
-- Victoria Beckham -
Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
-- Yotam OttolenghiSource : "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
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We take a dash of sexiness, a dash of spice, and blend it in with awesomeness and glory. Then we dance.
-- Drew Chadwick -
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Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music!
-- Jason Graves -
I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.
-- Joseph McGinty NicholSource : Source: collider.com
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We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.
-- Juan Felipe HerreraSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
-- L'Wren Scott -
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When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes me right back, because they were friends of the channel, too.
-- Jancee Dunn