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Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil. -- Vinnie Tortorich
I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy. -- Zach Galifianakis
My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian. -- Mike Birbiglia
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. -- Mahmoud Darwish
That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is. -- Eva Ibbotson
America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden. -- Joe Bastianich
Rick Perry is qualified to be President in the same way that Olive Garden is qualified to be Italy. -- Andy Borowitz
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Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179) -- Elizabeth Strout
I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! -- Emma Watson
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. -- Max Lucado
How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwichesDon't they drive everywhere?" -- Elizabeth Strout
... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical ... just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand. -- Melissa Bank
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I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions. -- Joe Pantoliano
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Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous. -- Cory Michael Smith
Knock, Knock." "Who's there?" "Olive." "Olive who?" "Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms. -- Jean Ferris
Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date. -- Elizabeth Strout
Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer. -- Douglas Coupland
But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different. -- Elizabeth Strout
Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211) -- Elizabeth Strout
Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her. -- Rebecca West
You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally. -- Mike Birbiglia
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan. -- Nicole Richie
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive. -- Jennifer Morrison
If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil. -- Alain Ducasse
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. -- Boris Johnson
You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil. -- Emeril Lagasse
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. -- Yasser Arafat
I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy. -- Bill Rancic
Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can. -- Anne Burrell
I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils. -- Apolo Ohno
I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil. -- Maeve Binchy
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility. -- Paloma Picasso
My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white. -- Bella Thorne
I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. -- Emeril Lagasse
If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds a nice flavor. We grill a lot, so I'll use a little on my corn or my shrimp. -- Alison Sweeney
We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine. -- Debi Mazar
Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health. -- David Perlmutter
I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes. -- Nadia Giosia
If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless. -- Alice Waters
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice. -- Dean Karnazes
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. -- Giada De Laurentiis
When my hair is curly, I use Suave coconut conditioner. It's not a leave-in, but I use it like one. It is so light and really brings out my hair's curl. A lot of leave-ins are too heavy, but this one is just perfect. When it's straight, I love Frederick Fekkai Tech Shampoo & Conditioner and their Olive Oil glossing cream. -- Adrienne Bailon
My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends. -- Jean Reno
An olive, with a pit... -- Victor Feguer
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Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like. -- Cassandra Clare
Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. -- Yasser Arafat
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. -- George Herbert
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. -- Horace
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from? -- Jane Wagner
He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown. -- Audrina Patridge
Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? -- Don Williams
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? -- Don Williams
In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.] -- Ovid
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.. -- Leonard Cohen
Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how. -- Steven Levitt
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. -- John Milton
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! -- Carre Otis
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. -- Michael Ondaatje
Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties? -- Louise Rennison
The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely. -- William Shakespeare
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. -- Thucydides
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients. -- Nigella Lawson
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? -- William Shakespeare
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Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast. -- Patience Gray
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns. -- Anthony Lewis
What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat. -- Robert Lowell
Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy. -- Gelett Burgess
The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit. -- Yusuf al-Qaradawi
For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif -- Rick Riordan
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. -- Odysseas Elytis
I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. -- Mahmoud Abbas
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine! -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color. -- Cameron Russell
isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain ... -- Janet Erskine Stuart
As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out. -- Ana Ivanovic
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn. -- Edmund Burke
The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits and vegetables while low in sodium. It is also enriched with olive oil, high in antioxidants as well as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. -- David Perlmutter
I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles. -- Patti Smith
But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars. -- Lynn Messina
I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several for everyday wear, including an olive-green one, a burgundy one and a cream one with leather arms. -- Jonas Armstrong
While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. -- Michelle Malkin
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. -- Dorothea Dix
Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.' -- Jim Gaffigan
One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much. -- Jacques Pepin
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings. -- George Orwell
Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God. -- Rabbi Akiva
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ. -- Ernest Hemingway
Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil. -- Brunello Cucinelli
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves. -- Paulo Coelho

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