quotes 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 BarrosSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
-- Anita Manning -
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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 -
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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. LockhartSource : E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books
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You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.
-- Ferran AdriaSource : "This column will change your life: mise en place" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.
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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 -
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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 -
He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato
-- Jeanne DuPrauSource : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.84, Random House Books for Young Readers
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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 TrevinoSource : Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.
-- Tom Sizemore -
Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
-- Uma Thurman -
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
-- Victoria Moran -
I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.
-- Zoe Kravitz -
It's uncomfortable for me, but at least they're bouquets. They're not bricks or tomatoes yet, although it's gonna feel nice to get that big, rotten tomato right in the face, just get it out of the way.
-- John FullbrightSource : Source: www.npr.org
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The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.
-- Sanjay Rawal -
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Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'
-- Alan TitchmarshSource : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
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Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.
-- Mimi Sheraton -
I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
-- Rob Thomas -
Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.
-- Henry BlodgetSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.
-- Kathleen Parker