
“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
Source: Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1
A collection of quotes on the topic of potato, likeness, making, thing.
“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
Source: Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1
Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy (1998)
3 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
He said, "You've got a point."
At a rally in Londonberry, New Hampshire (16 October 2008) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/16/cnr.04.html
2008
Section 3, paragraph 9.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
As quoted in The Daily Of The University Of Washington (1989-05-05).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Oui interview (1979)
“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
“Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.”
“Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”
Variant: Don't you give me no rotten tomato," Dexter sang, "just 'cause to your crazy shit I
cannot relate-o.
Source: This Lullaby
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
The Shortcut: 20 Stories To Get You From Here To There (2006) by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179
Source: Adverbs (2006), Truly
Context: If you follow the diamond in my mother's ring from Africa to Germany to California to Arizona to Wisconsin, in the heel of a grandmother, in the beak of a magpie, in the gravel of the path, in someone else's novel, in the center of the earth where the volcanoes are from, you would forget the miracle, the reason diamonds end up in people's fingers in the first place. it is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.
“Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak”
Source: The Battle for Skandia
Samuelson (1985; p, 6) as cited in: Klein, Daniel B., and Ryan Daza. " Paul A. Samuelson (Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates). http://econjwatch.org/file_download/767/schultzipel.pdf" Econ Journal Watch 10.3 (2013): 561-569.
1980s–1990s
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
Vœux d'un solitaire, pour servir de suite aux "Études de la nature", as quoted in The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams (University of Illinois Press, 2003, p. 175 https://books.google.it/books?id=o9ugCcZ13BMC&pg=PA175)
“[takes a drag of his cigarette] Mmmm mmmm, tastes like steak and potatoes doesn't it? Mmmm.”
Sane Man (1989)
That bacon tray is always at the end of the buffet, you always regret all the stuff on your plate. "What am I doing with all this worthless fruit? I should have waited! If I had known you were here I would've waited...."
King Baby
“Too much chicken soup for the soul is not a good thing. Working men eat meat and potatoes.”
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
Why War? (November 21, 1998) http://web.archive.org/web/20070324011124/http://www.natvan.com/pub/1998/112198.txt, American Dissident Voices Broadcast of November 21, 1998 http://archive.org/details/DrWilliamPierceAudioArchive308RadioBroadcasts.
1990s, 1990
Mobilize 2010: Negroponte Sees Tablets as Creative Tool http://gigaom.com/2010/09/30/mobilize-2010-negroponte-sees-tablets-as-creative-tool in Gigaom (30 September 2010).
2010s, Markets, Governments, and the Common Good
How to Write (1931), Ch. 4: A Grammarian [Dover, 1975, ISBN 0-486-23144-5] p. 109
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
Quoted in Richard H. Babbage (1948), "The Work of Charles Babbage", 'Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, vol. 16
Excerpt listed online, here: http://www.ed-thelen.org/bab/bab_philosopher.html
Attributed
I did not learn my AA-BB-CC's. God-god dammit-dammit.
Mitch All Together (2003)
“Top peeled back like the skin of a potato.”
Upgrade
Official Mix tapes, Da Drought 3 (2007)
"Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate.
Source: The Passionate Life (1983), p. 137
[Unhappy Meals, 2007-01-28, The New York Times Magazine, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ei=5090&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ex=1327640400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print, 2007-01-28]
"Aunt Jean's Marshmallow Fudge Diet"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
"Why Surfer Tia Blanco Is Vegan" https://web.archive.org/web/20170315222610/http://www.mensjournal.com:80/health-fitness/articles/why-surfer-tia-blanco-is-vegan-w471552, interview with Men's Journal (March 2017).
As quoted in Biopolymers, Polyamides and Complex Proteinaceous Materials I (2003) by Stephen R. Fahnestock, Alexander Steinbüchel, p. 395
Attributed from posthumous publications
track 2, "Sandwiches"
Mitch All Together (2003)
from The Christian Science Monitor - August 3, 1994. David Sterritt
“Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack.”
Section 16 (p. 82)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)
Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 14
Shenandoah (1965)
Artist Club, 22 February 1952, as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 102
1950's
Quote in letter 169, from The Hague, January, 1882; as cited in Vincent van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, catalog-page: Dutch Period: - 4. Potato Diggers
1880s, 1882
Our Pride http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon81/811213.htm 1981-12-13.
Source: Cider with Rosie (1959), p. 50.
a letter to his first wife Minna, from the front, 21 May, 1915; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 213
1900s - 1920s
"The Panda's Thumb of Technology", p. 65
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)
“Try some Symbolic Logic on your little Couch Potato when you go home, and see what happens.”
Lewis Carroll in the Theatre (1994)
Quote in his letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 30 April 1885, letter 497 - vangoghletters online http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let497/letter.html
Vincent refers to his famous painting 'Potato Eaters' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Vincent_van_Gogh_-_The_potato_eaters_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
1880s, 1885
The Starch Solution (Rodale Books, 2013), Ch. 1, p. 6 https://books.google.it/books?id=if9YAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA6.
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 156.
“Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.”
Quoted in the UNIX-HATERS Handbook, chapter 7: " The X-Windows Disaster http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html"
[Szent-Györgyi, Albert, The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young, 1970, 20-21, The Universal Library Crosset & Dunlap, A National General Company, New York, https://archive.org/details/isbn_0448002566, July 24, 2017, Internet Archive]
Six-monthly releases: OpenBSD shows the way, Varghese, Sam, 2009-12-08, iTWire, 2016-02-16 http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way?start=1,
Jarvis v. Swans Tours Ltd. [1973] Q.B. 233 (C.A).
Judgments
In relation to the emigration of the young in Ireland
Newsnight Interview (February 24, 2011)
Source: The twelve principles of efficiency (1912), p. 107 ; cited in: Hugo Münsterberg. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, 1913, p. 52
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 100
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)