Rice Pudding Quotes

• Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

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  Peg Bracken

  Eye   Iron   Pudding  

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

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  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower   Book   Cat  

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

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  Julia Child

  Children   Growing Up   Revenge  

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• And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

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  Ben Elton

  Signatures   Pudding   Beef  

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• When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

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  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking   Together Again   Doe  

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.

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  Haruki Murakami

  Two   People   Missing  

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• When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.

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  Fabio Capello

  Player   Two   Pie  

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