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The Army was my bread and butter. -- Brian Lumley
Playing show after show is like my bread and butter. -- Ani DiFranco
If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter. -- Francis Bond Head
If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter. -- Jacques Pepin
I'll always have a score-first mentality, because that is my bread and butter on the floor. -- Kevin Love
Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that. -- Fiona Apple
I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough. -- Frank Silva
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. -- Rita Dove
I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'. -- Steven Rodney McQueen
Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter. -- Charlie Sifford
When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter. -- Janina Gavankar
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. -- Alastair Campbell
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy. -- Ice Cube
I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses. -- Tom Hiddleston
The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance. -- Benjamin Booker
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. -- Jonathan Swift
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. -- Jules de Goncourt
A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it. -- Marcus Garvey
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter -- Joseph Addison
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that. -- Al Yankovic
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. -- Hendrik Willem van Loon
Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet. -- Ernest Bevin
From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress. -- Rita Hayworth
Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter. -- James Russell Lowell
I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather. -- Morgan Freeman
In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for. -- Will Sheff
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. -- Louisa May Alcott
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all. -- Miguel de Cervantes
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness. -- Barbara Johnson
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions. -- Mike Mayhall
For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope. -- Robert S. Mendelsohn
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. -- Compton Mackenzie
The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard. -- Charles Dickens
The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client. -- Abraham Lincoln
There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive. -- Meghan Daum
What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone. -- James Russell Lowell
Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject. -- Thomas Lynch
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it. -- Garth Ennis
I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer. -- Saladin Ahmed
The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show. -- Damon Lindelof
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life. -- Orson Scott Card
Up the Junction' went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn't necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage. -- Gurinder Chadha
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. -- Manolo Blahnik
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides. -- Jesse Jackson
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. -- Helen Fielding
You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity. -- J. B. Smoove
Human beans are for Borrowers"?like bread's for butter! -- Mary Norton
Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life. -- Leonore Fleischer
I don't even butter my bread I consider that cooking -- Katherine Cebrian
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. -- James A. Garfield
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. -- A. A. Milne
Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter. -- Bill Cosby
You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life -- Julia Child
I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread. -- Gene Kelly
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. -- Steven Wright
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. -- Leigh Hunt
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. -- Meg Wolitzer
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs -- Manolo Blahnik
The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces. -- Trevor Bailey
I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea. -- Dodie Smith
False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going. -- Rob Payne
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts. -- James Beard
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. -- Isabella Beeton
Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me. -- James Beard
Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon. -- Jim Connolly
The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow. -- John Muir
Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread. -- John Steinbeck
Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite. -- Ruth Reichl

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