Soup Quotes

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. (H. L. Mencken)
Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. View quote
Pete Townshend
Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and live in a tiled roof house, we have not accomplished his will.... We have already reached the status of a strong country in the military field, let alone politics and ideology, but there are still quite a number of things lacking in people's lives. I am trying to implement his will by solving these problems. View quote
Kim Jong-il
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material [butterfly wings, around 1955] – the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable – with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. View quote
Fred Hoyle
The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order. View quote
Fred Hoyle
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup." View quote
Peter Ackroyd
And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet! View quote
Jello Biafra
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. View quote
Dylan Moran
When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off. View quote
Vanna White
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. View quote
Sheri S. Tepper
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked. View quote
Heinrich Müller
I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too. View quote
Markus Zusak
Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold. View quote
Harville Hendrix
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.