Root Beer Quotes

• The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

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  Mark Kurlansky

  New York   Food   Beer  

  2495

• I'm a big root beer guy.

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  Dylan O'Brien

  Beer   Roots   Guy  

  "We Are So Crushing on Dylan O'Brien, and You Will Be Too!". Interview with Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

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  Holly Black

  Good Day   Beer   Thinking  

  5186

• He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. "Attack! Attack!" he yelled.

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  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid   Beer   Warrior  

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.

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  T-Bone Walker

  Mother   Cousin   Kids  

  4070

• There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

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  A. Alfred Taubman

  Beer   Roots   Challenges  

  4680

• A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

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  Nicholson Baker

  Beer   Roots   Rose  

  Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.81, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.

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  Marcel Dzama

  Beer   Color   Ideas  

  Source: therumpus.net

  4372

• Zerts' are what I call desserts. 'Trée-trées' are entrées. I call sandwiches 'sammies,' 'sandoozles,' or 'Adam Sandlers.' Air conditioners are 'cool blasterz' with a 'z' - I don't know where that came from. I call cakes 'big ol' cookies.' I call noodles 'long-ass rice.' Fried chicken is 'fry-fry chicky-chick.' Chicken parm is 'chicky-chicky-parm-parm.' Chicken cacciatore? 'Chicky-cacc.' I call eggs 'pre-birds,' or 'future birds.' Root beer is 'super water.' Tortillas are 'bean blankets.' And I call forks 'food rakes.'

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  Aziz Ansari

  Beer   Air   Cake  

  2497

• So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

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  Corra May Harris

  Business   Beer   Men  

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