Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken."
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Marisa Miller
Model, Actress
"If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."
Patch Adams
Physician, Comedian
"The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free."
Sid Caesar
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off."
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"Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness."
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"They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry"
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"People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety."
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"Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns."
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"The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on."
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"So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen."
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"Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain."
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"You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face."
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"Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you."
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"You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around."
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"We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked."
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"Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice."
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"The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat."
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"I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie."
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"I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens."
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"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies."
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"Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions."
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"In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'"
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"Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie."
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"You like pie? I like pie."
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