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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. -- Charles Lamb
It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal. -- Penn Jillette
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? -- Curly Howard
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. -- Francoise Sagan
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus. -- David Chang
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. -- Peter Ustinov
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. -- Hector Hugh Munro
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. -- Mario Batali
Good luck with your asparagus. -- Eric Holder
Pray how does your asparagus perform? -- John Adams
The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus. -- Louie Gohmert
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes. -- Anne Sexton
Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet -- Gertrude Stein
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers. -- Cecil Beaton
One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted. -- William Alcott
my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other. -- Dorothy Gilman
Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner. -- Lauren Alaina
Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile. -- Gino Bartali
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. -- Charles Dickens
I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable. -- Tracy Pollan
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight. -- Hal Borland
Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I go for crunchy things - I like green beans, broccoli, asparagus, celery and carrots. I'm not a fruit eater, though. -- Rico Rodriguez
I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots. -- Alison Sweeney
I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great. -- Todd English
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas. -- J. R. Moehringer
It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance. -- Charlie Trotter
I've done a lot of kale as well as broccoli. I love it. Asparagus I couldn't stand before, but now it is part of my meals. All three of those are greens that I never used to eat. Now, a smoothie for me is nothing but fruits and veggies and vanilla Greek yogurt. -- Donald Driver
The German asparagus are fabulous. -- George W. Bush
What most enraptured me were the asparagus." -- Marcel Proust
Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up. -- James Patterson
That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that? -- Deborah King
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' -- Dave Barry

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