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Olives Quotes

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.219, Bantam

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

Song: Dance Me To The End Of Love, Album: Various Positions, 1984

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.30, Courier Corporation

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

"Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". The Bon Appétit Magazine Interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.295, A&C Black

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.173

Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301