Potato Quotes

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. (Douglas Adams)
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. View quote
Alan Watts
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
This is what my friend said to me; he said "You know what I like? Mashed potatoes." It's like, "Dude. you gotta give me time to guess. If you're gonna quiz me, you must insert a pause in there." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. View quote
Erma Bombeck
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. View quote
Bette Davis
I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream! View quote
Tove Jansson
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. View quote
Jean Kerr
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. (Michael Pollan)
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. View quote
Thomas Overbury
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. View quote
Lenny Kravitz
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye. View quote
Daniel Levitin
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. View quote
A. A. Milne
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul. View quote
Sarah Grimké
Those who are the most devout, outstanding Unification Church members are they the most beautiful people externally or just so-so? Very often, those who have the features of an Idaho potato are the most loyal members of the Unification Church. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind. View quote
Lin Yutang
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato! View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes. (Stanisław Lem)
That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life. View quote
Buck Owens
I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! View quote
Charles Dudley Warner