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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Douglas Adams

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan Watts

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

David Gayson

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

I liked gravy poured on top of a big glob of mashed potatoes, I liked biscuits a lot, and a lot of them. I liked going to the state fair and having a fried Twinkie. They were my choices. They were bad choices.

Mike Huckabee

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

Jean Kerr

They're in good shape, they exercise as a family ... they don't look like couch potatoes. They obviously make an effort to practice what they preach.

James Hebert

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Sweeney

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzine

Usually cook them with fix potatoes, bacon, sausage, and cornbread and brown beans.

Jim Meadows

This is no small potatoes. It won't be pretty.

Bob Blanchard

We're in a closed environment and you may not want to live so close to live animals. But instead of dehydrated mashed potatoes and candied yams, you could make it from real vegetables.

Michele Perchonok

She was part of her church choir, step team and usher board. She loved McDonald's, mashed potatoes ? but most of all she loved the Lord.

Tracy Harris

We're fair priced, and all our entrees come with choice of soup or salad. They also come with vegetable and potatoes.

Chuck Kolner

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

We've got a little bread left and some more potatoes. We're just trying to keep our faith together and hope up.

Norma Mccorvey

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

Lenny Kravitz

Well I mean it's a great recipe. I mean it's the ground beef, it's marinated with a little red wine. We've got the vegetables in there, got our champ, which is our garlic mashed potatoes baked on top.

Ray Murphy

We have a lot of couch potatoes out there. Hopefully, we can get away from that.

Helen Smith

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

Richard Cobden

Wouldn't it be ironic that the very year the World Potato Congress is bringing all these international visitors, we take famous potatoes off our plates?

Frank Muir

I'm going to try to prepare, what for the McArthur family is a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Did you know that mashed potatoes with onions could be dehydrated?

Bill Mcarthur

Jeep is to Toledo is what cheese is to Wisconsin, what potatoes are to Idaho, what sunshine is to Florida.

Toledo Blade

It's not a massive migration, but it's no small potatoes either.

Philip Palaveev

I left some green beans and mashed potatoes on that track the first week, I want to tell you. It was hard. Really hard.

Larry Conley

They're known for the best steaks in the state, big fat potatoes and the personable service. That's what they say.

John Floyd

Things are going very good so far. We got our potatoes in, and they're close to emerging. Our oats are up, and we're about half done with the corn.

John Mchugh

If the potatoes don't look good to us, they're not going to look good to our customers. We can't afford to grow them. We can't sell them.

Larry Guilian

The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Jack Handy

Eugene is small potatoes for Whole Foods. Whole Foods doesn't need Eugene, however Eugene downtown needs Whole Foods. If we pass on this rare opportunity there may not be a second opportunity.

Larry Reed

The only thing hard has been to eat. It's been a lot of eggs, milkshakes and mashed potatoes. Nothing that's tough to chew on.

David Chiotti

The idea that you can drink your potatoes now is pretty appealing to most people.

Gray Ottley

This is really small potatoes since 1980.

Jon Major

People want meat and potatoes and the chance to dine out and experience eclectic cuisine. We?re shooting to wow people. We want to catch them off guard and have them experience something they haven?t before.

Andrew Corbin

Potatoes are 88 cents a pound.

Niki Woolaver

A lot of my friends say In-N-Out has the best fries, but those have too much of a spud taste, ... I know fries are supposed to taste like potatoes, but to me that seems unnatural. I like the oils and the flavors from frying.

Wendy Patterson

By this point, it's all scientific. We're not making instant potatoes, so it has to be.

Pam Wright

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

Marlene Dietrich

I don't want to have any more shakes and mashed potatoes. It's hard because you always see the guys eating good food, and you have to eat applesauce and pudding.

Matt Trannon

It's not just a few pounds of lettuce or potatoes.

Lyn Halvorson

It was pretty clear last year there wasn't any sort of momentum to move forward. Mosquito control districts are definitely perceived by people who do this for a living as beneficial, but they're political hot potatoes.

Julie Graham

Having been there already, I have a feel for the types of things (Hamilton) needs to know and some of the things I don't need to burden him with, especially when he's moving from game to game to game. You have to be sure he gets the meat and potatoes, and you don't bother him with the peas and carrots.

Mike Jaskulski

Also, with men, there's a preference toward comfort food that's a little more healthy, like meat, pasta and potatoes. Women choose things like chips, cookies, chocolate and cake.

Brian Wansink

Maybe we can get some couch potatoes in the outdoors.

Larry Woolsey

Heaven forbid if you have to buy a box of laundry detergent or a sack of potatoes. That's a trip right there.

Katherine Freund

But carbohydrates are the body's preferred source of energy. And as a source of carbohydrates, potatoes are a good and nutritious food.

Denise Beatty

It's fun to fall in love with something new every week. In the summer the first new potatoes make people crazy. You eat them with butter, dill and herring.

Jani Lehtinen

Not only will it provide locals a new income and draw tourism, but it will show people that this forest is an asset to us. They can make more money in this forest the way it is than if they cut it down to grow sweet potatoes.

Tommy House

Breakfast. Eggs over easy, bacon, fried potatoes, no grits.

Frankie Bones

Whole wheat waffles; and we had hash browns made out of reconstituted potatoes.

Eric Roberts