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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. -- Erma Bombeck
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride. -- Patricia Clarkson
Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy. -- Billy Bob Thornton
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. -- Sydney Smith
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy. -- David Heyman
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
It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. -- Marian Burros
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. -- Anne Lamott
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps. -- Dorothy Allison
Gravy is persistently plagued by two problems. Problem number one - skin. And problem number two - lumps. -- Ari Shapiro
Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel. -- Christoph Fischer
International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Some get the gravy, some get the gristle. -- Joni Mitchell
Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress. -- Totie Fields
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy. -- Joss Whedon
There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen. -- Charles Dickens
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort. -- Dolly Parton
I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur. -- Kathy Freston
A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it's not sweet in the least! -- Stephan Pastis
I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat. -- Blake Shelton
I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy. -- Louis Tomlinson
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. -- John Crowe Ransom
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. -- Mary McCarthy
I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money. -- Mike Weir
Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy. -- Nick Offerman
The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies. -- Nell Newman
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! -- Charles Dickens
It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it. -- Al Jourgensen
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard. -- Patrick Carney
Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy. -- Carla Hall
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! -- Grandpa Jones
Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. -- Leigh-Allyn Baker
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it? -- Hari Kondabolu
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know? -- Neil Strauss
Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. -- Julie Burchill
I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money. -- Larry the Cable Guy
The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy. -- Edward Ruscha
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream. -- Dorothy Allison
Joe gave me some more gravy. -- Charles Dickens
Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy. -- Billy Campbell
and I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive, -- Chuck Klosterman
I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please. -- Davy Jones
A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy. -- Dolly Parton
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. -- Katherine Mansfield
I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat. -- Erin McCarthy
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave. -- James Thurber
So sucker MC's, please think twice; Would you join the navy if you didn't like the gravy and rice? -- Special Ed
Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine. -- Anne Sexton
At the potluck, I brought two dishes: knowledge and mashed potatoes and gravy. Guess which one got cleaned out and which one hardly got touched. -- Jarod Kintz
The entrÃ©e wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place. -- Clive James
Any filmmaker who has translated some personal vision into a film that actually gets shot and distributed is wildly successful. Congratulations! Anything after that is gravy. -- Paul Dinello
Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy? -- Gene Simmons
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. -- John Guare
Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now." Valerie - To the Nines -- Janet Evanovich
My kids teased me at dinner that I'm not cool. I told them if I was cool I wouldn't be sitting at home with my kids. Pass the gravy. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline. -- David Letterman
Alright, good night, he said, his words a little slurredBut before I pass out, I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat. -- Erin McCarthy
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School. -- E. C. Bentley
It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy. -- Parley P. Pratt
what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy. -- Mabel Osgood Wright
My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite. -- Serena Williams
I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies. -- Wanda Sykes
The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much. -- Rick Heinrichs
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There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy. -- Rosita Forbes
That's why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can't channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot. -- Stephen Colbert
She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing -- Lorrie Moore

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