#soup

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#first-rate #more #painting #second-rate #soup

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#anybody #candidate #foist #i #i think

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#cool #enjoy #everything #go #good

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#curran #ilona-andrews #kate #kate-daniels #magic-burns

I skimmed the pond scum with a spoon like broth in a soup bowl. Why does everything have to remind me of her? 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #memory #nostalgia #pond #remind

I am the alphabet soup of love. Eat me or read me, but don’t feed me to the cats.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alphabet-soup #cats #eat #feed #love

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #ate #blow #catch #could

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it. ↗

— Leon Askin

#evening #few #had #lunch #meat

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#eat #had #johnson #kennedy #soup