Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips."
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Potatoes
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Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground."
Stephen King
Author
"Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one."
Brigham Young
Religious Leader
"Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place."
Wentworth Miller
Actor
"I'm pretty much a couch potato."
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"What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach."
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"Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps."
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"He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato."
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"When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries."
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"I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs."
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"I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through."
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"I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato."
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"Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich"
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"Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes."
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"I sweet potato what I sweet potato."
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"Men are not potatoes!"
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"Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings."
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"For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it."
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"I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds."
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"Marriage is the cold potato of love."
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