Best 112 quotes in «salt quotes» category

this heart yearns... for the salt of unsmelt air unswept thunderstorms... unknown adventures.

We could take him to the valley of salt," - Amatis Herondale

True, there's an aisle devoted to foreign foods, and then there are familiar foods that have been through the Japanese filter and emerged a little bit mutated. Take breakfast cereal. You'll find familiar American brands such as Kellogg's, but often without English words anywhere on the box. One of the most popular Kellogg's cereals in Japan is Brown Rice Flakes. They're quite good, and the back-of-the-box recipes include cold tofu salad and the savory pancake okonomiyaki, each topped with a flurry of crispy rice flakes. Iris and I got mildly addicted to a Japanese brand of dark chocolate cornflakes, the only chocolate cereal I've ever eaten that actually tastes like chocolate. (Believe me, I've tried them all.) Stocking my pantry at Life Supermarket was fantastically simple and inexpensive. I bought soy sauce, mirin, rice vinegar, rice, salt, and sugar. (I was standing right in front of the salt when I asked where to find it This happens to me every time I ask for help finding any item in any store.) Total outlay: about $15, and most of that was for the rice. Japan is an unabashed rice protectionist, levying prohibitive tariffs on imported rice. As a result, supermarket rice is domestic, high quality, and very expensive. There were many brands of white rice to choose from, the sacks advertising different growing regions and rice varieties. (I did the restaurant wine list thing and chose the second least expensive.) Japanese consumers love to hear about the regional origins of their foods. I almost never saw ingredients advertised as coming from a particular farm, like you'd see in a farm-to-table restaurant in the U.S., but if the milk is from Hokkaido, the rice from Niigata, and the tea from Uji, all is well. I suppose this is not so different from Idaho potatoes and Florida orange juice. When I got home, I opened the salt and sugar and spooned some into small bowls near the stove. The next day I learned that Japanese salt and sugar are hygroscopic: their crystalline structure draws in water from the air (and Tokyo, in summer, has enough water in the air to supply the world's car washes). I figured this was harmless and went on licking slightly moist salt and sugar off my fingers every time I cooked.

To be the salt, you also need to be the shaker. To shake the world. Shake the truth. Shake the people. Shake the word. Have it sprinkle, melt and preserve humanity.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.

I crave cantaloupe like a crazy person. But I put salt all over it, so I don't know if it's that healthy.

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, "Pass the salt." I said, "Screw you! Sit closer to the salt.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.