#potatoes

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. ↗

— Bette Davis

#chance #create #dream #fulfill #given

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ↗

— Alan Watts

#confuse #does #god #just #peel

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#comfort food #cook #creativity #fish #food

I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here. ↗

— Scott Wolf

#big #got #guy #here #i

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#baker #father #grounded #man #meat-and-potatoes

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#cake #cameras #dinners #exists #frozen

To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father would soon be over. As long as he searched for them he was prepared to be hungry and ill, but now that the search had ended he felt saddened by the memory of all he had been through, and of how much he had changed. He was closer now to the ruined battlefields and this fly-infested truck, to the nine sweet potatoes in the sack below the driver's seat, even in a sense to the detention center, than he would ever be again to his house in Amherst Avenue. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#concentration-camps #nine-sweet-potatoes #world-war-two #change

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ↗

— Woody Allen

#comedy #confronts #dessert #drama #just

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#cannot #evil #get #money #more

There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith