Pepper Quotes
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A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.
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More Pepper Quotes
He’s like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful.
jack vance— Chapter VII, section 1
For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.
jean chrétien— November 25, 1997, at a press conference, in response to a question from Nardwuar the Human Serviette about whether Chrétien supported police use of pepper spray on protestors. YouTube video
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.
jonathan swift— A Modest Proposal (1729)
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
samuel johnson— October 5, 1773Recounted as a common saying of physicians at the time.
I built my house from barley rice Green pepper walls and water ice – And everything emptying into White
cat stevens— Into White
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
forrest Gump— Forrest Gump (1994), Mykelti Williamson
The pepper spraying of eleven UC Davis students is a startling visual revelation of a pattern repeated over two decades: the widespread use of a potent chemical compound to subdue political protesters, prison inmates and inner city youths, in spite of numerous warnings by health officials of potentially life-threatening effects. The Davis episode shows that pepper spray has become a weapon of choice even for University of California police.
— Tom Hayden, "Why the Pepper Spray Spree Should End", The Nation (2011)
A regular guy named John Pike has become the new face of evil among people following the Occupy protests around the country. The UC Davis police officer's matter-of-fact pepper spraying of seated, obviously peaceful students has provoked justifiable outrage. James Fallows summed up the situation with his usual precise moral compass. "This is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population," he wrote. "That's what I think here."
— Alexis Madrigal, "Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike", The Atlantic (2011)
A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.
jonathan swift— 1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.
Sgt pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.
Peter Blake— Colin Serjent, "Blake's 08, Nerve, Autumn 2006
When talking about what his Father was doing at the age of 23 I said to him last year, or the year before, ‘Yeah, well…something…something.’ You know, I’d done my degree and I was like ‘You know, well, I’ve got a degree…you know, I’m this age.’ and he, he, laughed and he was just like ‘What was I doing when I was 23?’ and I said, ‘Dunno’ and he was like, ‘What was I doing?...Oh yeah, Sgt. pepper.’ and I was just instantly just like oh.
dhani harrison— Dhani Harrison "YouTube video" at Youtube.com, 2002: Interview with Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison about George Harrison and his Brainwashed album.2002
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
— 1773 Remark, 5 Oct. Quoted in James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785).
People think Sgt pepper is part of my name.
Peter Blake— Serena Davies, "In the studio:Peter Blake, The Daily Telegraph, 2005-12-13
