Sliced Bread Quotes:

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

- Bette Midler

topic: Thinking, Bread, Sliced Bread

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Witty, Humorous, Food, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger For Food

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Stupid, Humor, Sliced Bread

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

- D. W Brogan

topic: Life, Men, Doe, Informative, Bread Of Life

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

- Walt Whitman Rostow

source: Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

topic: War, Tunnels, Light, Trippy, Staying Positive In Life

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

- Seth Godin

source: "How to get your ideas to spread". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2003.

topic: Years, Bread, Firsts, Telegraph, Sliced Bread

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

- Dexter Fletcher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Theatre, Bread, Sliced Bread

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

- Candice Bergen

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Sliced Bread

People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are opposed by people who also have a priori politics saying that this is the best of all possible worlds, capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you're just alarmists and so on and they can massage the data so it fits them.

- Richard Lewontin

topic: Data, People, World, Alarmists, Sliced Bread

I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

- Octavia Spencer

topic: Believe, Thinking, Promise, Viola, Emma

And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread... is not always about what the patent is like, or what the factory is like - it's about can you get your idea to spread, or not.

- Seth Godin

source: "How to get your ideas to spread". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2003.

topic: Ideas, Patents, Bread, Sliced Bread