Starch Quotes

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. (E. M. Forster)
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. View quote
Maya Angelou
Let me put it another way. Most people are what they sense and if all you see day after day is a mat on a floor that belongs to the rats and four walls with tiny piles of plaster at the bottom, and all you eat is starch, and all you hear is continuous music, you smell garbage and piss which drips through the walls continually, and all the people you know live like you, it's not horrible, it's just... Who they are. View quote
Kathy Acker
Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta. View quote
Cynthia Kenyon
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness. View quote
George Eliot
Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. View quote
Cyndi Lauper
... we English people delight in a moral - not a moral to be deduced or inferred, but a nice, rounded, little moral, in all the starch of set sentences, and placed just at the end. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. View quote
Robert Graves
I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take my book, I take my stick On the Sabbath day, In woody nooks and valleys I hide myself away. To ponder there in quiet God's Universal Plan, Resolved that church and Sabbath Were never made for man. View quote
Robert Graves
Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits. View quote
Terry Pratchett