1.
I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.
Rhona Mitra
2.
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
Jim Fowler
3.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens
4.
The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
Angus Buchan
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
Francis Bacon
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Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
Bill Bryson
8.
You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need.
T. Colin Campbell
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Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
Stephen King
10.
I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
Paloma Faith
11.
The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate
Michelle Trachtenberg
12.
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
Brigham Young
13.
I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Louis Tomlinson
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The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
Stanislaw Lem
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I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.
James Beard
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People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
Nancy Mitford
18.
I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.
Tre Cool
20.
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
Gilbert Stuart
21.
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.
Thomas Sowell
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Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Tom Robbins
23.
Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.
Julie Powell
24.
I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.
Craig Ferguson
25.
The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
Evelyn Underhill
26.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
Werner Herzog
27.
You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window." "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it." "Twice." "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.
J.R. Ward
28.
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Henry David Thoreau
29.
There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.
Richard Simmons
30.
I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.
Ryan Lochte
32.
And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
Lauren Child
33.
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.
Art Donovan
34.
Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
Gail Porter
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
M. F. K. Fisher
36.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
is like the potato. The best part is underground.
Thomas Overbury
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This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.
Humphrey Bogart
38.
I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.
Laurie Colwin
39.
I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.
Adrian Peterson
40.
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
Paul Merton
41.
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
Sandra Bullock
42.
I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.
Carey Mulligan
43.
I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
Mary J. Blige
44.
A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
Andy Goldsworthy
45.
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
Grant Morrison
46.
I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
Ilka Chase
47.
I don't want to have to put on that "thing" - I call it "the thing" when I have to do my hair, put on the lashes, get dressed up. When I go out for potato chips, I just want to go out looking like myself, which means you will see bad pictures of me. There probably are some out there right now, but it's just part of the life.
Tyra Banks
49.
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
Richard Helms
50.
It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
Rachel Maddow