Gravy Quotes

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck

Family, Beverage, Considered

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

Life, Money, Lonely

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
Anne Lamott

Peace, Fear, Hate

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
Whoopi Goldberg

Success, Good, Successful

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Julie Burchill

Women, War, Smart

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
Robert Farrar Capon

Daily, Give, Same

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith

Life, Friendship, Person

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.
Nick Offerman

Life, Love, Food

I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.
Mike Weir

Money, Nice, Play

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
Patricia Clarkson

Great, Train, Ride

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
Billy Bob Thornton

Winning, Whatever, Getting

I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
Kathy Freston

Loved, Meat, Fur

The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
Patrick Carney

Funny, Fun, Everything

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
David Heyman

Best, Everything, Try

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.
Marian Burros

May, Done, Possible

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