Pepper Quotes

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. (Samuel Johnson)
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 w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable." ― [6]. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor knives, and pepper spray on fourteen commercial flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House. View quote
Dave Barry
My mother once sent me out to buy pepper, and I have not returned home yet. View quote
Halldór Laxness
If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything. View quote
Gregory Maguire
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. View quote
Bryan Q. Miller
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets. View quote
Eva Zeisel
I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. View quote
Gaylord Perry
I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches. (Julie Gonzalo)
What I love is Mexican hot chocolate, like a spicy hot chocolate - adding cayenne pepper to the Hershey's cocoa and making a spicy-sweet treat. View quote
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come. View quote
Marc Newson
I think the only way one can arrive at an understanding of his anti-Semitism growing all the time is because in America your Mr. Roosevelt had his brain trust which was made up of so many Jews, Felix Frankfurter, Claude Pepper - was it Pepper? I can't recall the other names. Oh yes, Morgenthau. It made Hitler feel more and more that an international conspiracy had caused the war, with the Jews behind it. View quote
Joachim von Ribbentrop
For me, pepper, I put it on my plate. View quote
Jean Chrétien
What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love. View quote
Haruki Murakami
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. View quote
Andy Rooney
I built my house from barley rice Green pepper walls and water ice – And everything emptying into White. View quote
Cat Stevens
I don't know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” "I- I figured it'd be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered. View quote
Richelle Mead
He's like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful. View quote
Jack Vance
But what is the use of this history, what the use of all this minute research? I well know that it will not produce a fall in the price of pepper, a rise in that of crates of rotten cabbages, or other serious events of this kind, which cause fleets to be manned and set people face to face intent upon one another's extermination. The insect does not aim at so much glory. It confines itself to showing us life in the inexhaustible variety of its manifestations; it helps us to decipher in some small measure the obscurest book of all, the book of ourselves. (Jean Henri Fabre)
We drove him home, down Spring Street to First and over the railroad tracks to a black neighborhood that picked up the sounds of the rattling Ford and threw the echoes over an area of dirty frame houses and tired picket fences. He got out at a place where a dying pepper tree had spilled its brown leaves over the ground, and when he walked to the porch you could hear his feet wading through the hissing dead leaves. View quote
John Fante
Bradshaw sighed and swallowed, feeling the volatile coldness in his throat and trying to remember what tequila tasted like. Pepper and turpentine, as far as he could recall. View quote
Tim Powers
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist. View quote
Peter Blake
People think Sgt Pepper is part of my name. View quote
Peter Blake