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Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed. -- John Marsden
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me. -- Bayard Taylor
Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. -- Yasser Arafat
Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry. -- Johnny Carson
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. -- Henry David Thoreau
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. -- John Milton
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive. -- Jennifer Morrison
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
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! -- Daniel Boone
Trees are good for contemplation: Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a peepul tree. -- Colin Tudge
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
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
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
EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals! -- Rachael Ray
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating. -- Sybille Bedford
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 Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im 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. Its effortless. -- Alice Waters
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats. -- Neal Barnard
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
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. -- Lawrence Durrell
If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from? -- Jane Wagner
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar -- Henry David Thoreau
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. -- Dean Koontz
If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke. -- Penn Jillette
Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a riverthat's romance. -- Brandi L. Bates
Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty. -- Anton Chekhov
I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food. -- Queen Latifah
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. -- Peter Diamandis
O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies. -- Hilda Doolittle
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
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Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few. -- Tom Douglas
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
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

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