Quotes and Sayings About Tomatoes
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We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.
-- Alice Cooper -
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
-- Alice Waters -
I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.
-- Ana Beatriz Barros -
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
-- Anita Manning -
Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is!
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
-- Clyde Edgerton -
If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.
-- David Haye -
A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
-- E. Lockhart -
You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.
-- Ferran Adria -
Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.
-- Harlan Coben -
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
-- Henri Matisse -
There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.
-- Jack Nicholson -
A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.
-- Jane Grigson -
In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.
-- Laurie Colwin -
I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
-- Lee Trevino -
Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.
-- Liam James -
I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.
-- Maeve Binchy -
My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.
-- Megan Abbott -
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.
-- Michael Lewis -
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
-- Nadia Giosia -
I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
-- Nicole Scherzinger -
Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.
-- Nigel Slater -
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.
-- Ryan Seacrest -
Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.
-- S. J. Perelman -
Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. Theyre much better than eating real sausages and you dont have to contemplate half way through exactly whats inside them. ... You can have them, a bit of fried bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious.
-- Simon Cowell