“ Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. ”
- Boris Yeltsin- Copy
- 65
“ Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. ”
- George F. Will- Copy
- 3.8K
“ No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. - King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. ”
- Mike Royko- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard. ”
- Spike Milligan- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie. ”
- Guy Ritchie- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ”
- Jim Davis- Copy
- 537
“ If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. ”
- Tina Fey- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 457
“ If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
- 1.4K
“ There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie. ”
- Edgar A. Guest- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that. ”
- Randy Newman- Copy
- 568
“ Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. ”
- Peg Bracken- Copy
- 3.9K
“ An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
- 1.8K
“ If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop. ”
- James Broughton- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Here and there, an old tub was put to catch the droppings of rain-water from a roof, or they were banked up with mud into a little pond like a large dirt-pie. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it. ”
- Osa Johnson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair! ”
- Karl Shapiro- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
- 3K
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