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I look like a turnip with hair in the morning! -- Dominic Cooper
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. -- Richard Burton
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. -- Waverley Root
....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard. -- Mark Twain
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. -- Alain Ducasse
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. -- Billy Bob Thornton
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. -- Samuel Johnson
I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes. -- Marlene Dietrich
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs. -- Donald Rumsfeld
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play. -- John Gerstner
They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it. -- Cassandra Clare
Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips. -- Sherwood Anderson
It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not? -- George Orwell
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip. -- Henry Miller
The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him. -- James Joyce
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron) What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips. -- Julia Child
Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. -- Rebecca West
By July we had strawberries, red currants, raspberries, veal, dill, baby turnips, marrow. Mussolini resigned, and Italy capitulated. Roses could be had. -- Elise Blackwell
On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was. -- Yotam Ottolenghi

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