Spoonful Quotes

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else. (Barry McGuire)
Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough. View quote
John Stott
My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do. View quote
Duff Goldman
The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot. View quote
Howlin' Wolf
Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma. View quote
John C. McGinley
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. View quote
John Sebastian
I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job. View quote
Sloane Crosley
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. View quote
Richard M. Sherman
I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil. View quote
Maeve Binchy
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life. (Jonathan Swift)