A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.
It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.
At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums. . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.
all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.
I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.
I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.
Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine. . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.
There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.
I crave cantaloupe like a crazy person. . . But I put salt all over it, so I don't know if it's that healthy.
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.
Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.
Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.
We must act together, as a united people. . . For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.