Quotes about ketchup

A collection of quotes on the topic of ketchup.

Quotes about ketchup

“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Time

“Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Evil

“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Time

“Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Be kind to dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with cool whip. (Channon)
Source: Dragonswan

Art

“That’s an answer in the same way that ketchup can be hair gel.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

Way

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Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist

Quote from 'Note on Painting', Robert Rauschenberg, in Pop Art Redefined, October/November 1963, J. Rusell and Suzi Gablik, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1969
1960's

Fate, Way, Communication, Chance

“Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside onself so that they explosively burst forth all at once, shocking and confusing employers and friends -- most of whom thought things were fine.”

Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer

Definitions

“But hummus. When did that happen?…but there's a restaurant down the road that that's all they do. That is isn't a proper meal, that's a side-order innit? That's like having a restaurant just floggin' tomato ketchup. Hummus isn't a meal. They don't even try and kid ya to get you in to flog you just hummus, they actually say Oh it's hummus today. Not gonna work, they shut down within a month.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Podcast Series 2 Episode 3
On Food

“I am so 100 percent Swedish… Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup — nothing and nothing and then all at once — splat. I think I'm a little like that.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

As quoted in """"Ingmar Bergman: Summing Up A Life In Film"""" by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times Magazine (26 June 1983).
Context: I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup — nothing and nothing and then all at once — splat. I think I'm a little like that. And I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish — I don't dislike to be alone

Thinking

“If ketchup had 1/20th of the carcinogens in a cigarette they'd rip it off the shelves tomorrow, so the government is full of shit when they tell you that they care about you.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Be More Cynical (2000)