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When I was younger I was strictly meat-and-potatoes and I just wouldn't try things. As I have gotten older, I'm much more adventurous but still not like whoever that dude is on whatever show it is who just goes around

When I was younger I was strictly meat-and-potatoes and I just wouldn't try things. As I have gotten older, I'm much more adventurous but still not like whoever that dude is on whatever show it is who just goes around and eats bugs everywhere.

Paul F. Tompkins
Trying, Meat, Potatoes
"Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

Myrtle Reed
Potatoes, Cold
Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.

Melissa Marr
Integrity, Deceit, Potatoes

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.

Maya Angelou
Men, Years, Potatoes
Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

Maureen Howard
Potatoes, Common, Hindsight

We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.

Maggie Stiefvater
Size, Stones, Potatoes
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.134, Scholastic UK

Whether it's a potato or a nut, it's a foodage!

Karl Pilkington
Nuts, Potatoes

He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.

Josh Lanyon
Potatoes, Potato Chips, Wanted
Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.117, Samhain Publishing

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.

J. K. Rowling
Cat, Night, Potatoes

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Demand, Potatoes

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

George Iles
Degrees, Might, Potatoes
George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?

Ben Aaronovitch
East, Too Much, Potatoes

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