Alphabet Soup Quotes:

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Education, Humor, People, Funny Comedian, Alphabet Soup

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

- Vanna White

topic: Soup, Pay, Alphabet, Alphabet Soup

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

- Mary Norris

source: Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Cereal, Alphabet, Soup, Alphabet Soup

all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

- Sue Monk Kidd

source: Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.31, Penguin

topic: Childhood, Mutiny, Paddling, Alphabet Soup

The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Funny, War, Fighting, Swiss Army Knives, Funny Comedian

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

- Woody Allen

source: Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Philosophy, Done, Soup, Alphabet Soup

The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Bridges, Knowing, Alphabet Soup, Building Roads

I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: People, Soup, Alphabet, Alphabet Soup

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

- Deion Sanders

topic: Thinking, Soup, Alphabet, Alphabet Soup

Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?

- Kate Bornstein

source: "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

topic: Bisexuality, Sms, Alphabet Soup, Sex And Gender