#asparagus

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#gentle #inspires #thoughts

You know how when someone is tall, people will compare them to a string bean? She, my friend, was like asparagus, but without the subsequent odor. ↗

— Tom Alford

#funny #humor #string-bean #tall #funny

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#eaten #importance #like #marriage #matter

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great. ↗

— Todd English

#dinner #dinner party #get #great #had

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. ↗

— Mario Batali

#anything #asparagus #cook #define #else

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#asparagus #been #curry #deny #dining

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#being #developed #either #good #got

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? ↗

— Curly Howard

#casting #cooking #you

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#asparagus #because #by the time #doing #earn