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Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

My kids are funny. They won't eat the heels on a loaf of bread. So I patiently explained to them that they eat rolls, and rolls are all crust, just like heels...and now they won't eat rolls!

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.

My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.