#potatoes

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 have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#feel #hands #i #i feel #i feel like

The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

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

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

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

While we’re at it, why don’t we add a third emotion to this list: lust. You are probably unaware that Linnaeus lumped the tomato into the same genus as the potato, a food with a reputation for its widespread availability and easy satisfaction of oral needs. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#lust #potatoes #tomatoes #food

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#become #before #deadly #extremely #food